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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The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
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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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People think I'm totally crackers.
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I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.
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I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday.
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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.
