Penelope Cruz Quotes
As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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Writing bores me so.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
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When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
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There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
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Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
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Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
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A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal
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Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.
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I love to work out and really enjoy the outdoors. I like to immerse myself with sport-related activities and spending quality time with people. I find people to be very inspiring, and I get a lot of motivation from listening and interacting with them, sharing stories and similarities - and differences - in our lives, and learning from each other.
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As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
