Benicio Del Toro Quotes
To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
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Evidence has... been adduced that schizophrenia is widespread in other kinds of human societies. ...and they form a substantial fraction of the clientele of the tribal shamans and healers.
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I was painfully shy as a child.
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Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
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I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
