Pedro Almodovar Quotes

Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.

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• Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  

  Hal David
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  • Different
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• My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
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• My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Voice
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• I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
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• I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

  

  Ina Garten
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• In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

  

  Nassau William Senior
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• To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
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• Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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• You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.

  

  Kapil Dev
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• Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
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• Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
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• I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work!

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Work
  • Opportunity
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• There’s a lot of dirty theology out there, the religious counterpart to dirty politics and dirty business, I suppose. You might call it spiritual pornography—a kind of for-profit exploitative nakedness. It’s found in many of the same places as physical pornography (the Internet and cable TV for starters), and it promises similar things: instant intimacy, fantasy and make-believe, private voyeurism and vicarious experience, communion without commitment. That’s certainly not what we’re after in these pages. No, we’re after a lost treasure as old as the story of the Garden of Eden: the...

  

  Brian D. McLaren
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• Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

  

  John Ruskin
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• Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.

  

  Pedro Almodovar