Victoria Abril Quotes
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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I think people have to look at it from a certain view. I say things because, at the end of the day, I can say whatever I want.
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As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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Sometimes we put so much effort into things we're doing, like dating or wedding planning, that we don't stop to think about whether or not we even want the results of that effort.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
