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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The entrepreneurial spirit has moved from the garage in high-tech to the kitchen in food.
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There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.
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We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices.
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The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
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God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
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I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.
