Penelope Cruz Quotes
I never felt, 'Oh, I think I look good.' I always tend to be more in the insecure side. And I thought that has always been a way to protect myself. Because I don't trust the good feelings that can come from that.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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My skin was really bad. Roxanne Rizzo's products were the first things that really cleared it up.
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I never felt, 'Oh, I think I look good.' I always tend to be more in the insecure side. And I thought that has always been a way to protect myself. Because I don't trust the good feelings that can come from that.
