Octavio Paz Quotes
The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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I still say I have no interest in being an actor - I just love acting.
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Eating well, being around the table with the family or friends or relatives - it doesn't get any better.
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The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It's 'flip and flirty,' as my mother prescribed. It's crisp yet splendid. It makes me feel I've put on made-to-order armor. My mother's armor. Armor that helped shield me from exclusion. Armor that helped shield me from inferiority.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
