Eva Mendes Quotes
I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and Latino roles were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.
 
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	The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.   
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	Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.   
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	One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.   
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	You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.   
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	I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.   
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	I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.   
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	People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.   
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	I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.   
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	I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.   
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	Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.   
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	The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.   
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	What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?   
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	Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.   
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	The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.   
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	I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.   
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	Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'   
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	It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.   
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	Negative politics have always been around.   
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	People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good.   
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	My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.   
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	I'm not against making new fans, but I'm not going to go out of my way to pander to someone and try to make them like me; that's not who we are. It's not as if we're fighting to find an audience - we have our audience, and anybody else is definitely welcome.   
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	You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.   
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	There is a business side of the game. You may write about it, we may read about or see it on TV, but it does not affect what is going to happen between those lines.   
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	I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and Latino roles were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					