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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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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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 have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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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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For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.
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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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The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here that honesty no less than intensity of vision is the pre-requisite of a living expression. The fullest realization of this is accomplished without tricks of process or manipulation, through the use of straight photographic methods.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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I'm not a wannabe Miley Cyrus.
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People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
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Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program.
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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.
