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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If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
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Art is what defines us, what makes us human.
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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.
