Emilie de Ravin Quotes
I'd like to play with a period piece. Playing a girl next door in 2010 is so different from playing one in 1950, the way you talk, walk, dress, relationships. It's really fun studying all that.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
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Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.
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It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls, and it's something that every young woman who has painful menstruation should be aware of... It's a condition that is curable if it's caught early. If not, if it's allowed to run on, it can cause infertility, and it can really, really mess up your life.
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I am a firm believe in the power of dreams, because the world is basically one giant realization of people's collective dreams come true. We need to dream to aspire to do something that keeps us striving. But those dreams and ideas and wants mean nothing without execution, which doesn't usually happen without a plan.
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I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.
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I'd like to play with a period piece. Playing a girl next door in 2010 is so different from playing one in 1950, the way you talk, walk, dress, relationships. It's really fun studying all that.
