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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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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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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If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?
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But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
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I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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I think the fashion industry has gotten to a place where it is embarrassing.
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I have had a unique relationship with Donald Trump. I'm also the one who put him and 'The Apprentice' on the air at NBC. I've known who he is and what he is for a long time.
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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.
