Walter Salles Quotes
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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It seems to me that self confidence and the ability to stand one's ground are essential if we want to succeed in life. I am not talking of stupid self-assurance but of an awareness of our inner potential, a certainty that we can always correct our behavior, improve ourselves, enrich ourselves, and that things are never hopeless
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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I'm a night person; I don't usually get up till noon.
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Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.
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I am not one to go for traditional female roles, because I don't think traditionally female characters are very interesting, and I don't think they represent real life.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
