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Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: spanish
Birth: January 17, 1600 - May 25, 1681

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War Victory Know Gain May How

Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.

Dreams Old Couch Sit Like Everybody

I can't even believe that in 2018, I still have to lay out why diversity in anything matters.

Diversity Believe Why Matters Out

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

Amanda Seyfried

You Mouth Dirty Down Go Sometimes

I think when people go into something for the right reasons, you're going to get a better film; you're going to get more intimacy and a stronger foundation of trust.

Trust People Foundation Think Better

I think laughter is a sacred act.

Laughter Think Act Sacred I Think

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

Love Happy Writing Performance Well

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.

Lazy Say Question Ask Same Quote

The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.

Communication Women Woman Words Man

My mom is an OK cook. She'll skewer me for saying that openly, because she claims to be a very good cook. She can make about, I don't know, 10 dishes, I think, which is four dishes more than I can make.

Good Me Mom Saying Think I Can

I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really passionate about.

Money Believe You Know Personal Way

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.

Me You Build Personal Own Things

There is no one single solution to the gun violence issue, nor are there any easy answers.

Gun Solution Violence Easy Answers

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