Antonio Banderas Quotes

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Live
  • Country
  • America

• When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
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  • Mother

• Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Remember
  • American

• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
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• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

  

  Walter Pater
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• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
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  • Think
  • Me

• None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.

  

  Gary Bettman
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  • Flexibility

• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  

  Abraham Cahan
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  • Reality

• I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

  

  Harold Budd
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  • America
  • Professional

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
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  • Silence

• I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
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  • Goat

• Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  

  Ted Dexter
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• In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
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• I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'

  

  Zaha Hadid
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  • Luxury

• I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.

  

  Tahyna Tozzi
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  • High

• Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

  

  Edith Hamilton
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  • Great
  • Art

• A thought is an idea in transit.

  

  Pythagoras

• Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'

  

  Liane Moriarty
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• I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.

  

  Kate Williams
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  • Hate

• It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

  

  Alice Hamilton
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  • Control
  • Present

• I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

  

  David Nicholls
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• The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.

  

  Antonio Banderas
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