Penelope Cruz Quotes
I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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Before I went to a meeting at the 'Harvard Lampoon,' I had no idea that there was even a comedy magazine at Harvard, let alone that you could write comedy potentially for a living.
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Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.
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I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of the time include some pretty dour kitchen-sink dramas of the A Kind of Loving variety. (This kind of film seems disillusioned with the sixties before they've even really begun.)
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I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
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I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama.
