Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.
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In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations.
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The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of the world. That is what we should be training people to do
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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That's not my love; that's just your life.
