"There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile."

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Alma Guillermoprieto

#Happiness Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.”
“When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.”
“You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.”
“By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.”
“Wasted time means wasted lives.”
“Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.”
“Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.”
“Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.”

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