Carmen Laforet Quotes
When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.
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Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
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I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.
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Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
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One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.
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When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.
