Antonio Lobo Antunes Quotes
I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I would not like young people to ask this question, why were we born at all. I want them to ask every kind of question but for them to question why they have been born to a situation which does not assure them of their right to dignity and to freedom from want and from fear, that is not the kind of question I would want anyone to ask.
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You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
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I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.
