Carmen Laforet Quotes
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I was excited when I first got the call, when I heard BBC Four were making a biography and they were interested in me being a part of it.
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You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.
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Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.
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It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.
