Mariska Hargitay Quotes
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Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.
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When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!
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Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
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When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.
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I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.
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Meisner technique was different than anything I'd ever experienced. It's a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.
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If I eat clean, I look 10 years younger.
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I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
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Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.
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Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
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You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.
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Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.
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Of course everyone says they hate baby talk, but mine was not annoying.
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I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.
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You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.
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I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.
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When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.
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I realize that you have to show up for your life.
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When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.
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If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.
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When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.
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My weekends are extremely precious.
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Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.
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As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.