Penelope Cruz Quotes
I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning.
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The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.
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Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.
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Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'
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I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.
