Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Quotes
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.
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I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.
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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
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Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.
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As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
