Marisa Tomei Quotes
I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.
Quotes to Explore
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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I think there are things that you look for when you're younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That's not going to happen, and it's really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you're at ease with your life and don't have any unrealistic expectations.
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Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.
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When it was time for a player to go, he went.
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'
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Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
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Treat people with respect, whoever they are, and expect your governments to treat everybody with respect. And if you do that, then you’re going to be okay.
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Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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Getting up at odd hours to catch flights. I hate the long hours of waiting. There are times when one is continuously travelling, from one city to another, hopping from one studio to another or changing from one costume to another. It is annoying, but after a point, one learns to be immune to one’s surroundings.
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As I said, it was inevitable, and I don’t let laws of nature upset me.
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The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second – comics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles – all the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice at all. (1960's)
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I don't care whether I am a Minx or a Sphinx.
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Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.
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The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
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With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.
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If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.
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Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.
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Everything starts with one person... I don't care if you're 5 or 105, God from all eternity chose you to be where you are, at this time in history, to change the world.
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
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I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.
