Mary Pilon Quotes
It's still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they're interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.
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I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.
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It's still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they're interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party.
