Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.
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I like to stand out and make a statement.
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I've done some films that, on paper, were really interesting and special. And for some reason, when they got on screen, it just didn't work. Well, I didn't get to watch the film before I decided to do it.
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When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.
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I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on.
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
