Shakira Quotes
The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.
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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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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
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I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I hate you,' or 'You make me hate me.'
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Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.
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People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.
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I did this class when I first moved to California. It was a 'Kids on Camera' class up in the Bay Area. That was good for just getting me excited in acting and everything. Then once I started working down L.A., I just stuck to my acting coach, and she helps me prepare with auditions and that sort of thing.
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The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.
