Antonio Banderas Quotes
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.
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In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
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You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
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Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
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none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.
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South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.
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In my personal life, I am very contemplative.
