Eva Longoria Quotes
I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
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The trouble with records is that they're too short.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.
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'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'
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The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.
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All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.
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Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
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I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.
