Camila Alves Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
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Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.
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One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.
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I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.
