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 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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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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Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere.
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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
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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.
