Eva Mendes Quotes
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
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I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.
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As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
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'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.
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I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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Live, for I love you!
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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
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It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.
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I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'
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I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.
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The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance.
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Nothing has been given to me.
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There is a world within - a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty.
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By the end of the year, I'll have pure white hair from coaching these guys. It will drive you absolutely crazy. Especially with the teams I've had that were really mature.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'
