Camilo (Camilo Echeverry Correa) Quotes
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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
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The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.
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Shirley Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.
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Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.
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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
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Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.
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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.
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For a long time I wanted to hide backstage or under the stage.
