Salma Hayek Quotes
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
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If you’re not going to swim deep with me, then get out of my waters.
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I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.
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Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. And yet, examining the first couple's relationship - their negotiations of public and private life, of conflicts and compromises - offers hints about Barack Obama the president, not just Barack Obama the husband.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
