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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My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.
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Growing up, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo were the players I looked up to - and Carlos Tevez when he was at the club.
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After 9/11 we couldn't have had enough airplanes for the people who were volunteering to go. Now with 9/11 being as far removed as it is, the war being up one day and down the next, it becomes increasingly difficult to get people to go.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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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.
