Antonio Gala Quotes
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.
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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
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The only way to fall in love is to allow yourself to be vulnerable. The only way to dare to dream and making incredible things happen is to be vulnerable.
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Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
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Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.
