Pedro Almodovar Quotes

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• I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Food

• My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Music
  • Father
  • Me

• Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Sports

• We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• I came up with a story and I wrote it.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Story
  • Wrote

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Work
  • Want
  • Motivational

• I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Wealth

• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • She
  • Black

• I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Information
  • New
  • Speech

• I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Film
  • Stars

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Talk
  • Well

• Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Growth

• Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Up
  • Great

• In high school, we used to sign to each other during the game, signaling different plays and stuff like that. It was kind of fun. It was definitely unique.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Different
  • School
  • Fun

• I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

  

  Jason Fried
  • Different
  • Important
  • Why

• Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.

  

  Mindy Grossman
  • Different
  • Interaction
  • Transactions

• You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
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