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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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.
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We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us.
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The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.
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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.
