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One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
War
Victory
Know
How
May
Gain
Use
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
God
Nature
Natural
Stream
Gift
Law
Bird
Beast
Sweet
Given
Fish
Deny
Reason
I promise by my conscience and honor to faithfully fulfill the obligations of the office of president of the government with loyalty to the King, and to keep and enforce the Constitution as the fundamental norm of the State.
Pedro Sanchez
Government
Loyalty
Constitution
Obligations
Honor
King
President
State
Promise
Faithfully
Norm
Office
Enforce
Fulfill
Keep
Fundamental
Conscience
My ambition is to be happy.
Penelope Cruz
Be Happy
Happy
Ambition
I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.
Penelope Cruz
Love
Beautiful
Music
Woman
Culture
People
Sometimes
Language
Trapped
Think
Attitudes
Italian
Just
Spanish
Body
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
Penelope Cruz
Life
Myself
Relationship
Happy
Single
Spent
Girlfriend
Someone
Scene
Adult
Adult Life
Stepped
Come
Most
Terms
Am
Off
Being
Now
I like roles that people don't recognize me in.
Penelope Cruz
Me
People
Recognize
Like
Roles
In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked, around the house. Not hippie, but very free.
Penelope Cruz
Music
Cleaning
Sometimes
Sunday
Free
Naked
Every
Every Sunday
Everybody
Dancing
House
Around
Always
Hippie
Very
The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.
Penelope Cruz
Business
Important
Lesson
Say
Temptations
Glad
Most
Important Lesson
Learned
Said
How
Am
Lot
Did
The Most Important
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
Penelope Cruz
Life
Love
Truth
Me
Truth Is
Love Life
Job
Cares
Everybody
Everyone
Say
Bit
Tell
Lies
About
True
Absurd
Know
Because
How
Am
Amazed
Wants
Whisper
Much
Who
Who Cares
Whom
Why
Sleep
There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.
Penelope Cruz
Home
Phone
Wait
Ring
More
Get
Refuse
Want
Much
I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.
Penelope Cruz
Respect
Integrity
Somebody
One Thing
Tried
Remembered
Box
Person
Any
Artist
Want
Her
Thing
I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.
Penelope Cruz
Work
Speak
Remember
Opportunity
First
Only
Remember When
Knew
Got
Doing
Lines
Lot
America
Movie
Really
English
I came to New York to study ballet and English.
Penelope Cruz
Study
New
Ballet
Came
York
New York
English
There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.
Penelope Cruz
Work
Home
Phone
Wait
Old
Ring
More
Until
Get
Refuse
Want
Spain
Plan
Much
Actress
I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.
Penelope Cruz
Work
Me
Try
Thinking
Projects
Say
Stays
About
Look
Read
Go
Subject
Yes
Stop
Want
Cannot
Script
Then
Whole
Thing
I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.
Penelope Cruz
Work
Privacy
Son
Father
Our
Way
Kids
Possible
Invade
Give
More
Fact
Anonymous
His
Up
Anybody
Want
Grow
Grow Up
Chosen
Right
It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.
Penelope Cruz
Myself
Great
Family
Relationship
Sister
Brother
Great Relationship
Because
Very
Close
Working
I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.
Penelope Cruz
Better
Few
Bit
Like
Looks
Than
Dishes
Spanish
Little
Movies
Little Bit
Much
Cook
Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself.
Penelope Cruz
You
Yourself
Editing
Enemy
Sometimes
Too Much
Become
Too
Worst
Look
Because
Am
Very
Unfortunately
Much
Your
Aware
Monitor
Start
When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.
Penelope Cruz
Age
Lie
Parents
About
Had
Course
Content
Got
Script
I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama.
Penelope Cruz
You
Comedy
Think
Drama
Worry
Laugh
Characters
Would
Would-Be
About
Than
Going
Situations
Where
Biggest
Then
Trap
Harder
Play
When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.
Penelope Cruz
Work
Project
Considered
Never
Doing
Just
Wanted
Even
Started
As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
Penelope Cruz
Me
Mother
Made
Calm
Energy
Pleased
Kid
Had
Ballet
Lot
Lessons
I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.
Penelope Cruz
Myself
Mind
Too Much
Thought
Before
Young
Too
Everything
Could
Exhaustion
Just
Worked
Much
Body
I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.
Penelope Cruz
Me
Moon
First
Become
Everyone
Had
Looked
Said
Go
Wanted
To The Moon
Actress
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