Kirsten Vangsness Quotes
From the time I was about 7 until I was about 13 or 14, I looked like I was Pat from 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm not exaggerating, remotely.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
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My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?'
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I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.
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Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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From the time I was about 7 until I was about 13 or 14, I looked like I was Pat from 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm not exaggerating, remotely.
