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Isabel Allende Quotes

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: chilean
Birth: August 2, 1942

Topics

Writing Choice Calling

Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander.

Jenny Scheinman

Experience Words Free Think Language

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

Value Hollywood Studio Recognize

I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns.

Friend Hate Me Play Three Christmas

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

You Want Way Others Write Two

Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization.

Steven Van Zandt

Organization World Emergency Fund

I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq. I was like, 'Who is this guy? He's dope!' First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, 'Eh.' He started to get really successful. He wasn't 'mine' anymore.

Time Hip-Hop Dope First Time First

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.

Integrity Compromise True Become

You can cut the fat from your spending: Stop taking taxis, call your cable company and ask for the same deal new subscribers get, have dinner at home and then a drink out instead of a $100 meal with wine.

Home Dinner Wine Fat You Stop

I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic.

Janice Dickinson

Exercise Body Go Ingredients Sure

I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears.

Kind Avoid Trips Any Organised

I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

Love Home World True Nothing Over

It's always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, I've been lucky with the things I've been asked to do.

Fun Me Play Lucky Always Over

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