Penelope Cruz Quotes
I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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There is more to life than show business.
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Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
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The Internet Governance Forum - which brings together NGOs, government officials and companies - needs to do a better job of including representatives from Africa, Latin America, and Asia and addressing their issues.
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I still remember 1997 when I made the movie 'Storm Riders;' that moment, a lot of American producers want to hire me to make movies in the States.
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I am not an African. I am an American.
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I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.
