Alejandro Amenabar Quotes
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'
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Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
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In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.
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I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
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It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.
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I want to work with Cherry Jones.
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I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.
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I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, between 'Do I stay where I am with my family because I love them or do I follow the thing that makes my heart feel the greatest?'
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Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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Some things I see on television, I think, 'Oh my gosh, they're showing that now?' wow.
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The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.
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I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere - sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
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The false interpreters of nature declare that quicksilver is the common seed of every metal, not remembering that nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
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My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.
