Marley Dias Quotes
My health and schoolwork come first. I work hard to get lots of sleep, but I probably work just as hard to spend time with friends.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.
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In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
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I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.
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My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.
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Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.
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Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.
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The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.
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I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.
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My health and schoolwork come first. I work hard to get lots of sleep, but I probably work just as hard to spend time with friends.
