Pedro Almodovar Quotes
Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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To be international, you have to first be local. ... When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
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At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.
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I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.
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Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.
