"I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English."
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"I didn't practise it loads when I was at the academy in Spain, but when I got on the ATP Tour it's something I dedicated a lot of time to."
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"Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe."
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"Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier."
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"People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century."
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"I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney."
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"The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. And there's Columbus - he couldn't even get Italy to pay for his voyage so he has to go to Spain."
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"I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards."
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"[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain."
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"You had one guy who was a slave, and another who wasn't. And I actually know what happened to them. [Juan ] Garrido ended up getting good jobs and a pension in Mexico which was the center of New Spain, as it was called. Esteban ended up being killed by the Zuni Indians."
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"I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain."
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"She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas."
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"I absolutely would not have liked playing in Spain or somewhere like that, so I was just gonna do it a year. Then I was gonna be done."
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"A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music."
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"In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully."
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"The manager has always shown a lot of faith in me, and the fact that I gave up my home in Barcelona and family in Barcelona to come to Liverpool shows how much faith I have in Rafael Benitez."
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