Mariska Hargitay Quotes
I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
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Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
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No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
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You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
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I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.
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The priests had been told that I had dared to say that the moon was the world I came from and that their world was only a moon. They believed that constituted an adequately just pretext to condemn me to drowning, which was their way of exterminating atheists.
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Picket lines and picket signs Don't punish me with brutality Talk to me, so you can see Oh, what's going on What's going on.
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
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First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.
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Each spilt drop of blood, in any country under whose flag one has not been born, is an experience passed on to those who survive, to be added later to the liberation struggle of his own country. And each nation liberated is a phase won in the battle for the liberation of one's own country.
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And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. And their cold cherry soup is a horror to us, and yet it sends a German into ecstacy. In short, symphonic development is just like German philosophy and soup-all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning.
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Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears entrance Than hers that move, true to its striking hours; No hands so white e'er decked the warrior's lance, As those which tend its lamp as darkness lours; And never since dear Christ expired for man, Had holy shrine so fair a sacristan.
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Sweet sixteen today. She's looking like her momma a little more every day.
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I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.