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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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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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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I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.
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So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
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We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.
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I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.
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In spite of the way many people are turning away from God, not for other gods, but for no god; in spite of the mess we are making of this beautiful Planet Earth which God has given us, God still loves the world.
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I'm very sensitive to smells.
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The apple trees were in full bloom, the scent enveloping the party in a heady, almost palpable mist, and pale petals rocked on the glittering surface of the water and lay in white mats against the banks.
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I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.
