Carlos Lopez-Cantera Quotes
I'll put my conservative record up against anybody's record. I have a 10-year career in public service, and I'm proud of the things I've been able to accomplish.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.
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Atkins - I was on that for two weeks. All I lost was 14 days.
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King Hussein never lost his faith, no matter how difficult and unbearable and cruel the circumstances could be. I always remember that. It helps me get through everything. It's a way of trying to keep that positive spirit alive for as many people as we can touch. I think that's good for the world.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you've got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they're competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you're actually trying to do, like getting your work done.
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I'll put my conservative record up against anybody's record. I have a 10-year career in public service, and I'm proud of the things I've been able to accomplish.
