Dimitar Sasselov Quotes
When we discover New Earth - a planet we could call home - the question of the 'plurality of worlds' will come front and center, reminding us yet again that we are not the center of the universe.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country.
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If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you. You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.
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Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.
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Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
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Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don't make the rules. The universe decided it was going to take me a while to get to be a mom!
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When we discover New Earth - a planet we could call home - the question of the 'plurality of worlds' will come front and center, reminding us yet again that we are not the center of the universe.
