Natasha Lyonne Quotes
I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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You can’t tell real from a rutabaga.
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I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
