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Paulo Coelho Quotes

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: brazilian
Birth: August 24, 1947

Topics

God I Am Face Church Idea Committed

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

Jennifer Ellison

Sister Born Clever Up Taxi Little

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Work Good Rest Go Beyond Greatest

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Experience Overcoming Stronger Always

Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

John W. Rogers, Jr.

Life Sports School Team Basketball

I've been blacklisted in Hollywood.

I've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual.

Steven Van Zandt

Work Always Been Very Conceptual

My parents both came to the United States from the Dominican Republic, and they were deeply grateful for the opportunities this country provided. They raised my siblings and me to want to make a difference and give back. They taught us to work hard and aim high, but to also make sure the ladder was down to help others climb up.

Work Grateful Help Others Parents Me

James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.

Stars Culture Boy Rock Old May

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

Dorothy Thompson

Strong Worship Eat Instinct Than

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

Great Time Pain Seeds Think Plant

A film is not something that can be made over the phone or Skype. Creative people meet, spend time together, and then come up with something.

Time Together Creative People Phone

We were studying at Newport Film School, and I found that the only way for me to make films - because you need people and you need equipment - was that I had to be a student.

School People Me You Student Way

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