Corazon Aquino Quotes
I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
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It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!
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I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.
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Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.
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You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
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I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
