Marisa Tomei Quotes
With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.
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The structures along the midline of the brain are devoted to your inner experience of yourself, those on the side are more concerned with your relationship with your surroundings.
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With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.
