Miguel (Miguel Jontel Pimentel) Quotes
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
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I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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I appreciate every team that wants me, and I take on every challenge.
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At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.
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The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have consolidated, and journalists now cover dozens of countries at a time. It is physically not possible for one person to understand and live the unique sets of experiences in all these places in honest and meaningful ways. Outlets used to send journalists to places like Congo for months at a time, and they were stationed there for months or years. There was a sense of immersive reporting, and that has been a casualty of the shift in news over the past years.
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I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.
