Victoria Abril Quotes
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I am not honest.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that.
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It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.
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There's always opposition when you speak on topics like I'm speaking on. But I'm a black man in America. I grew up black in America. You can't tell me that what I've experienced and what I've seen is not true.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
