Penelope Cruz Quotes
There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.
Quotes to Explore
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'
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I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.
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A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
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There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.
