Antonio Banderas Quotes
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
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I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.
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I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.
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My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I feel like there's no such thing as gender.
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I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.
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I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.
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I feel real confidence in working on the stage.
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I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.
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At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
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Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.
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Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
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I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.
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When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh!! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'
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We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.
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Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.
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Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.
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The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.
