Victoria Abril Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
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I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.
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When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.
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I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
