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quarta-feira, 30 de junho de 2021

Carmen Miranda

 Carmen Miranda,  born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha,was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress and film star who was active from the 1930s on. Nicknamed "The Brazilian Bombshell", Miranda is known for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in her American films.

She was born in Portugal, but her family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was about a year old. She sang and danced as a child, and by 1930 was Brazil's most popular recording star, a position she kept for a decade. She made a few Brazilian movies, and while appearing in an elaborate stage show, was seen by producer Lee Shubert, who offered to star her in his Broadway revue, The Streets of Paris. She accepted, but only if he hired her band as well, which he did. Her samba music, sung and danced to while she wore elaborate hats decorated with a cornucopia of fruits, bare midriff gowns, and amazing platform heels (she was five feet tall), created a sensation.

In August 1955, while taping a Jimmy Durante Show, she suffered shortness of breath and fell to her knees after completing a number. Around 4 in the morning she suffered a fatal heart attack in her bath. 
























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1) Never apologize for acting on your instincts.
2) Never apologize for being passionate.
3) Never apologize for being smart.
4) Never apologize for demanding respect.
5) Never apologize for saying no.
6) Never apologize for not embracing someone else's agenda.
7) Never apologize for disagreeing.
8) Never apologize for your faith.
9) Never apologize for your own sense of creativity.
10) Never apologize for ordering dessert.
11) Never apologize for being funny.
12) Never apologize for living your truth.


Every one of us casts a shadow.

There hangs about us, a sort of a strange, indefinable something, which we call personal influence--that has its effect on every other life on which it falls. It goes with us wherever we go. It is not something we can have when we want to have it--and then lay aside when we will, as we lay aside a garment. It is something that always pours out from our lives . . . as light from a lamp, as heat from flame, as perfume from a flower.

The ministry of personal influence is something very wonderful. Without being conscious of it, we are always impressing others by this strange power that exudes from us. Others watch us--and their thinking and actions are modified by our influence."

"Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity." Ephesians 5:15-16

~J. R. Miller, "The Shadows We Cast"

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