Ana de Armas Quotes
Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody again.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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I moved to New York for love, and it was a disaster, in 2000. And then I had American friends who had lived in South Africa, and they were in Chicago. They said, 'Come and spend some time with us, and we'll help you get over it.'
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Bliss can only come through gratitude, only through enlarging your heart with gratitude. Bliss is the reward of gratitude - the gratitude which is not just wordly or just spoken lip service, but is from the heart - the gratitude of the heart.
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I could never plan to have a career that went this well... you know, there were times when it didn't: when it went into the toilet, or ducked, or was difficult to get moving.
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Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.
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Being missional means moving intentionally beyond our church preferences, making missional decisions rather than preferential decisions.
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Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody again.
