Shakira Quotes
I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.

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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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Good material is good material.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.
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If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
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Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
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People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
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I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.