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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I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally. And despite the order and the discipline - and home at certain hours and out at certain hours and reading at certain hours - there was a surprising amount of freedom. Eleanor Roosevelt talks about how the happiest moments of her days were when she would take a book out of the library, which wasn't censored.
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My job is to put as many ideas out there as possible every day. Some of them will get traction, some won't - some of them shouldn't.
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I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws.
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I didn't sit outside the bank and plan. I just went in and ad libbed because I was so young. But I was smart enough to know I would absolutely get caught.
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People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.
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My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.
