Antonio Banderas Quotes
Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.
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Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.
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Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.
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Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
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What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.
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I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'
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In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
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Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
