Drea De Matteo Quotes
I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.
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Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.
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Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.
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Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.
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Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
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The reason why you don't put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it's because you know you'll get burned. You don't need fear to avoid an unnecessary danger, just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.
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Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it'd be quite hard to live with - so I need to keep racing.
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Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.
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In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
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I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.
