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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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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 just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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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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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
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Every animated film that I've worked on - whether it was as a story artist or as Head of Story or even as director - where we originally started out with our story and where we eventually ended up were often very different places.
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You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.
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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.'
