Natasha Lyonne Quotes
My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
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In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
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I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.
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My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
