Marisa Tomei Quotes
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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I don't study; I create.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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Retouching is an incredible tool but can also create unrealistic expectations for women who don't understand that an image is not how the subject really looks. Even the subjects themselves can't live up to their retouched images.
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My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn't like it at all. I'm more comfortable in the world that I'm in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school I don't know what to do. I feel more secure in an adult environment.
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'Best in Show' legitimized me, and it was a great experience in Vancouver for six weeks with all those dogs!
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Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.
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There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
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I find that protein wakes up my brain and gets me ready for the rest of my day.
