Alberto Manguel Quotes
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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I'm not really enamored by movie stars.
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Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.
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True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
