Alejo Carpentier Quotes
Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years.
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I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.
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I made contours and all that, but in real life, you have to be very careful with that because you can go out in the street and look terrible. All those girls who show how to do contour, they do it quite well, but they're like makeup artists. They're in artificial light.
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I think I've got a lot of dark lines in this record [Wild Things] that I've hidden quite nicely among the nice things.
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What is right may properly be uttered even twice.
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I think about food all the time, so making peace with eating is a daily battle for me. I won't say I've completely figured it out, but I will say that right now, I win that battle more days than I lose it, and I believe that's the key.
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I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.
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Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
