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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I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.
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My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.
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See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
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I knew the lysosomes and peroxisomes because I had discovered them; I knew the mitochondria because I was interested in them. I knew the membrane system because my friend, George Palade, had worked on that.
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As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
