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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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 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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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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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.
