Salma Hayek Quotes
When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I've been very lucky. I made a choice, getting out of school, to follow the work and the people that really struck my heartstrings; 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' was one of those - maybe it was an accident.
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We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere.
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it.
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I've lived the torment of the names. I've lived the torment of boyfriends breaking up with me because they were afraid I was going to be too fat later in life.
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
