Fernando Pessoa Quotes
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
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I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients. It will be clean and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
