Eva Mendes Quotes
People in my inner circle of loved ones - we're tight and I've never misjudged someone as far as I know; I can feel someone's intentions, I know their intentions before they probably are honest enough with themselves to know it, so that's my strength.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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I am an inventor of music.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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For me, if I have the choice between an extra 45 minutes in bed or getting up at 4:30 A.M. to go to the gym, I will always choose bed.
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Call waiting was, for me, that was like the best invention ever, because there was four kids in my family, and to get on the phone was impossible.
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Soccer can be very subtle; it's a very nuanced sport. If I happen to make things easy and people don't see it, that could be a reason why someone might stand out more than I do. But that's just the way I've grown up playing the game.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
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People in my inner circle of loved ones - we're tight and I've never misjudged someone as far as I know; I can feel someone's intentions, I know their intentions before they probably are honest enough with themselves to know it, so that's my strength.
