Pedro Almodovar Quotes
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
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This is what I would call old politics. This is the stuff we're trying to get rid of. Because the problem is, when we start breaking down into conservative and liberal, and we've got a bunch of set predispositions, whether it's on gun control, or its' on health care, any attempt to do health care is socialized medicine.
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I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.
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I'm not a huge party girl. When I turned 18, the thing I was most excited about was being able to vote for the first time.
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My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.
