Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes

Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.

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• The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

  

  Edmund White
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• When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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  • You

• In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • America
  • Fear

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.

  

  Harold Prince
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  • Art
  • Forgive

• Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.

  

  Frances McDormand
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  • Face

• My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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  • My Life

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
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• A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

  

  Walter O'Brien
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  • Industry

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
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• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.

  

  Jack Youngblood
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• French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
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  • Different
  • Want

• I buy when other people are selling.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• I'd like to do a really masculine film.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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  • Masculine

• Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in 'Diablo III' or Sandal in 'Dragon Age.'

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
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  • Explore

• Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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  • May

• Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

  

  Kevin Bales
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  • Children

• My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.

  

  Louis Begley
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  • Work
  • Book

• I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

  

  Alessandro Nivola
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  • English

• I actually think, when you're young, ambitions are somewhat common - you want to prove yourself. It may grow out of different life experiences. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the admiration of the demanding father. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the love of an absent father.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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