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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If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior.
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We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
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If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.
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The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.
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Paradoxes are the only truths.
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My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.
