Ricky Martin (Enrique Martín Morales) Quotes
Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
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I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
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It takes one of the arrows out of our quiver, as it were.
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There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
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The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; 'they will both fall into the ditch.'
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The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.
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Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.
