Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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You should never assume about someone.
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You try to make a film, and you have to come up with the money. You need a big crew; you need to ask people for favors and get permission. If you have an idea for a song, you can pretty much go into your basement with your band mates and do it.
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I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.
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You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.
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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
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We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.
