Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes
I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
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The loners are always trouble. You know that.
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You really have to know who you are. It takes, uh it's not that easy.
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Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.
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I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
