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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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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We are trying to push the envelope with a lot of characters in 'Brothers.' We are going out of the way and being honest to our roles.
Jacqueline Fernandez
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I think I get credit for my timing because most of the time, I really have no idea where I'm going with it.
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People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically tried to work out who I was and what I should do, I would never have come up with the idea of writing. It was already there, gratis, a given - a gift.
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It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.
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If I were an animal, I would be a fish or a bird. It's the peace and beauty of ocean, the silent language of it. It seems like a womb, protective. The sky too. I love all colors, but blue mainly, because it's transparent like the water and the sky.
Nastassja Kinski -
My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.
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Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'
