Ana de Armas Quotes
When I was twelve, I heard about the National Theater School, and I told my parents, 'That's what I want to do.' And that was it.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I have a pig valve.
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I'm a writer who just happens to draw.
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When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.
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I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.
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My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
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If you want to fight against a declining trend, you've got to have a much bigger bazooka.
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When I was twelve, I heard about the National Theater School, and I told my parents, 'That's what I want to do.' And that was it.
