Maria Valverde Quotes
In Madrid, there's a big street in the centre called Callao. I remember being there with my mum and pointing to one of the big film posters and saying, 'I want to be up there.' That was my dream, and I got it.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.
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Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.
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What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.
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It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
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Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up; and suddenly, I looked down and said, 'Sir, I'm getting fed up with you. Either you watch, or I'm going to suck your neck,' or words to that effect, and suddenly people started to laugh.
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In Madrid, there's a big street in the centre called Callao. I remember being there with my mum and pointing to one of the big film posters and saying, 'I want to be up there.' That was my dream, and I got it.
