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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It is said there is no happiness, and no love to be compared to that which is felt for the first time. Most persons erroneously think so; but love like other arts requires experience, and terror and ignorance, on its first approach, prevent our feeling it as strongly as at a later period.
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As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
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Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.
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Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
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Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'