Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes
I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
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I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Money? I lost all taste for it.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.
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I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.
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Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.
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I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.
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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
