Natasha Lyonne Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
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I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.
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I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.
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There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy.
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If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.
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I'm very impatient, and if I get a new piece of technology, no matter what it is - I recently got the iPhone, which is very exciting - I can't be doing with reading manuals. I want it to work immediately and to do what I want it to do.
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It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
