Camila Alves Quotes
It was a really big deal to become an American citizen the right way. You have to work really hard, and it is such an honor to be able to say that.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest - and many living poets as well.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.
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People who fundamentally disagree with you politically or socially are not bad people. I can't expect that other side to have compassion for me if I can't put myself in their shoes, too.
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It was a really big deal to become an American citizen the right way. You have to work really hard, and it is such an honor to be able to say that.
