Penelope Cruz Quotes
I learned English kind of late. 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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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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I do a lot of damage to my hair every day because of my work. I just noticed this huge change. It started getting thinner and it started falling out. I hit 30, and I literally felt like I was balding!
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Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.
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You can get excited and feel unstoppable, but every week presents a new challenge. Each week, you have to work and get better.
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Generally for red carpet, I love to relax first. I love to work out. I love to eat well, drink tons of water beforehand, so on the night of the red carpet I feel good and ready to go. I also love to get a good body scrub.
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I learned English kind of late. 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.
