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It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture
Political
Ideology
Disseminate
Political Ideology
Any
I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
Oscar Niemeyer
Myself
Think
More
Could
Still
Than
Now
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
Oscar Niemeyer
Life
Political
Problems
College
Nothing
About
Students
Like
Know
Leave
Children
Stance
Who
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
Oscar Niemeyer
You
Space
Design
More
No Reason
Almost
Because
Buildings
Concrete
Cover
Any
Reason
Basic
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
Oscar Niemeyer
Everyone
Priests
Like
Talking
Catholics
Beliefs
I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
Paulo Coelho
God
Church
Face
Idea
Catholic
Female
Am
Committed
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.
Paulo Coelho
Myself
Business
Book
People
Write
Like
Reaction
Reader
Up
Whether
Dislike
I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
Paulo Coelho
Time
Book
Writing
Internet
Lonely
Other
Books
Tell
About
Networking
Chatting
Never
Like
Talk
Readers
Without
Leaving
Lot
Than
Office
Sites
From Time To Time
Bar
Social
Them
Your
Things
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho
Work
You
Lose
Promising
Towards
Getting
Your
Even
Start
Desire
Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.
Paulo Coelho
Thoughts
Facebook
Book
Twitter
Twitter And Facebook
Once
Possibility
Share
Readers
Blog
Going
Cannot
Them
Use
Connect
Found
I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
Paulo Coelho
Work
People
Judge
Books
Some
Some Things
Classify
Writer
Read
Self-Help
Am
Up
Provoke
Cannot
Justify
Them
Things
I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.
Paulo Coelho
People
Reading
Too
Books
Feel
How
Personal
After
Explain
I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
Paulo Coelho
Freedom
Experience
Dictatorship
Three
Brazil
Live
Felt
Arrested
Times
Regime
Deprivation
Flesh
Lived
There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
Paulo Coelho
Am
Afterlife
Convinced
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
Paulo Coelho
God
You
Face
Islam
Christianity
Religions
See
Somehow
Major
Judaism
Feminine
Go
However
Texts
Deny
Holy
Presence
This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.
Paulo Coelho
You
Facebook
People
World
Twitter
Bit
Easy
See
Over
Idealistic
Talk
How
Sound
Dialogue
Go
Blog
Account
May
Establish
Different
Little
Little Bit
Page
Different People
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
Paulo Coelho
Work
Love
Soul
Too
Everything
Eye
Eye Contact
About
Having
My Soul
Except
Contact
Almost
Almost Everything
Reader
Knows
Audience
Am
Conferences
Front
Who
Shy
I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.
Paulo Coelho
Me
Year
Every
Birth
Spend
Spent
Since
New
Hour
Place
Meaning
Eve
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
Paulo Coelho
Age
Kind
Jurassic
Publishing
MySpace is an addiction.
Paulo Coelho
Addiction
Myspace
I never say I am a guru.
Paulo Coelho
Say
Guru
Never
Am
I don't try to control my days.
Paulo Coelho
Try
Control
Days
My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.
Paulo Coelho
Day
Me
You
Emails
Say
Also
Well
Readers
Understand
Answer
Normally
Get
Same
Same Level
They Say
Level
In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.
Paulo Coelho
Respect
Writing
Creation
Side
Mystery
Involved
Feminine
Apply
I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.
Paulo Coelho
Time
Me
Long
Long Time
Archery
Bow
Practicing
Unwind
Been
Arrow
Helps
I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.
Paulo Coelho
Time
Free
Spirituality
Every
Every Time
Out
About
Something
Write
Am
Different
Set
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