Victoria Abril Quotes
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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I'm not politically correct.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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As a real estate investor, you're ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn't have any problems with ordinances.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
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Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.
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Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
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It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
