Emmanuelle Riva Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
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Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made his artwork with.
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The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
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I love life. I love life to death.