"I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception."
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"If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice."
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"I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction."
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"Suffering gives us no special rights."
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"My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces."
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"No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive."
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"All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state."
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"I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible."
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"No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess."
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"Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth."
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"I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence."
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"So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you."
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"That's filming. You pitch up, give your all, and see what the outcome is."
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"We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life."
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"Confidence is key. You're not going to put your money - you're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you."
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"In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'"
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"On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it."
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"I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves."
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"When we Consistently Generate Thoughts of Giving ... we Attract the Energy of Giving Back to Us"
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"You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love."
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