Pedro Almodovar Quotes

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

Pedro Almodovar

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• When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Always
  • Lies
  • Awareness

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Happiness
  • Everyday
  • Self

• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
  • Water
  • Drink

• Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Why
  • Play
  • Canada

• I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • High
  • Doing

• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • May

• People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Light
  • Humour
  • Hearted

• I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Happy
  • Generation
  • Films

• Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Good
  • Done
  • Jazz

• Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Want
  • Technology
  • Apple

• They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Art
  • Humanity

• There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • School
  • Age
  • Guy

• The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Beginning

• I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer.

  

  Carol Bellamy

• I've always been a really ambitious person.

  

  Christina Ricci

• Techstars has done a great job accelerating and providing venture capital to the most promising companies to make the biggest long-term economic impact.

  

  David Cohen
  • Great
  • Long
  • Done

• With the precision of a hummingbird's heart Was the lord of the monarch butterflies One-time ruler of the world of art

  

  Joan Baez
  • Time
  • World
  • Heart

• God always takes the simplest way.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Way
  • Takes

• People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Respect

• Everyone feels pressure, it's how you deal with it that's important. It's very unusual for Aussie teams to have a losing streak like this, so you want to snap out of it.

  

  George Gregan
  • Pressure
  • Losing
  • Teams

• Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

  

  Bruno Bettelheim
  • Children
  • True
  • Disappointment

• All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

  

  Pedro Almodovar