Gloria Estefan Quotes
If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.
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A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.
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I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.
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With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.
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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
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For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
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There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.
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The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.
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Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.
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Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
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As long as you can find a place to develop as an all-round player, then you're doing great.
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If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.
