Emily Browning Quotes
When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are.
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When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.
