Bobby Abreu (El Comedulce) Quotes
What can I do? ... No matter what, I'm going to play. We're in a situation where I'm needed, and I don't want to let my team down. I can't take a day off right now.
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
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There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
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My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.
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For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
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To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That's what I'm still working on, having done this for 20 years now.
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They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.
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I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
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I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
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I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
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A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.
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My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets.
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I don't think it should matter to the American people what color skin is on their president. What should matter is the content of their character.
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What can I do? ... No matter what, I'm going to play. We're in a situation where I'm needed, and I don't want to let my team down. I can't take a day off right now.
