Maria Conchita Alonso Quotes
I left Venezuela looking for something bigger. I wanted to be an international star.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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People are following me because they want to see pictures of me. So why is Instagram editing them?
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The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.
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Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.
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I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I left Venezuela looking for something bigger. I wanted to be an international star.
