Nana Mouskouri Quotes
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
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The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.
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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.
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I was born a singer. I need to do that.
