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Isabel Allende Quotes

I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Home Passion Daughter Time Think

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

Now Out Everybody Proportion Them

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

Me Start Think Say Critics Always

I definitely want to do movies and stuff.

Want Movies Stuff Definitely

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.

Feel Interesting Want Never Write

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

Jeannette Walls

Confidence Parents Me Self Loved

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.

Back Country Loan Debt Become Big

Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Orleans. And I'm really a jazz singer. I was impressed with Elvis - he was the handsomest guy I ever met in my life, and a very nice person, too. But the music doesn't impress me.

Life Music Me Black My Life Person

People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'

Dress People Me Feel Look Want

For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.

Hood Gone Halloween Robin Hood Peter

When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.

Light Think You Look Way Right

Sometimes I get emotional. I let my emotions get the best of me.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Best Me Emotions Sometimes Emotional

When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.

Politics Song Guitar You Want Sing

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