Mariska Hargitay Quotes
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
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The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
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Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
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Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.
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I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
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I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
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My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.
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I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.
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If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
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Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.
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If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.'
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People can come to me, and no matter how expert they are, I can virtually always see a way of doing something better.
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Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.
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Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is.
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James Woods is great. I actually did a movie with James Woods in 2000: 'John Q.'
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As quoted in 'U.S. to clarify Iran rules, but Tehran must reassure wary firms' (April 2016)
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I have so much love that I didn't even know about.
