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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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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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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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
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If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.
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I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.
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Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.
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I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
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"What?" He cut a grin at Kat when he saw the impressed look on her face. "Corporate espionage is my second greatest passion." "With your first being..." Kat prompted. "Gelato," Hale said, and turned back to the group.
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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.