Carlos Beruff Quotes
Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.
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I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
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People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.
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I believe that companies that have the opportunity to improve the lives of their customers and communities have the responsibility to do so.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
