Pedro Almodovar Quotes
Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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You need people that are willing to talk to the other side, or you're never going to get anything done. You need to be willing to expand your ground. There's always usually a place on issues where you can find common ground.
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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All I know is that I'm young and your rules they are oldIf I've got to kill to live then there's something left untoldI'm no statesman I'm no general. I'm no kid I'll never beIt's the rules not the soldier that I find the real enemy.
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“I was not wholly conscious of myself, but was more keenly alive to the fire within. It was as if I were the activity, and my hands and feet were only experiments for my spirit to work upon.”
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Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.
