Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
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You fall for who the chemistry is with.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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The dead don't die. They look on and help.
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But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. - The judge
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I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.
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If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?
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I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.
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The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
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As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.
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My homeland is the portuguese language.
