Eugenio Derbez Quotes
Drama is more universal. We all cry about the same stuff. But comedy is very specific: It depends on where you were born, how old you are, your social-economic status. It's very complicated to make people laugh.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.
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Everyone in the top of their fields is pouring everything they have into this, which is why it was such a massive undertaking and why filming was extended. It's not because things are going badly. It's because they're so massive and it's so complicated and we want to get it right. We're not just phoning it in. We're taking our time with it because it's really important.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.
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Drama is more universal. We all cry about the same stuff. But comedy is very specific: It depends on where you were born, how old you are, your social-economic status. It's very complicated to make people laugh.
