Shakira Quotes
I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Independence is a very subjective assessment.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.
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It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.
