Carlos Lopez-Cantera Quotes
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I'm one of those folks that look and say the Old Testament laid out clearly the path for Christ to come, but when He came, every scholar at that time missed it.
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My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table.
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Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.
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I support parents making the best decisions for their kids' education.
