J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.
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Personally, I'd have a baby just for the epidural.
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I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.
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The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.
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The important thing is that I'm clear about the love and respect that I got for Rihanna.
