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.
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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
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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.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
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Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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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.
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When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.
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My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.
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I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I get a part in an English movie, I buy myself a piece of jewellery from there.
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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.
