Penelope Cruz Quotes
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.
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I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.
