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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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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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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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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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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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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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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In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
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The Indian audience is getting exposed to world cinema and realising the power of unique plots and distinct characters.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.
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I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
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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.
