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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For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.
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I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.
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You can't manufacture a career as an actor because you aren't in control of what projects come to you, unless you are No. 1, two, three or four in the world.
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How did females become 'guys?' How did everyone become 'guys?' Remember, too, that a male guy was something of a scoundrel. And a wise guy was a fresh kid, a whippersnapper. In its most other famous evocation, men in Brooklyn said 'youse guys.' Damon Runyon referred to hustlers, gamblers, and other nefarious types as guys.
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I just try to be the best Catholic.
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My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.
