Mariska Hargitay Quotes
I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

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Broadway is really my life.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.
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Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.
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I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.