Mary-Louise Parker Quotes
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing.
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I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.'
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I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
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My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
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Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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You go into each game looking to win. We're not looking at wins or losses because it proves something as a team. We go into every game trying to get better. As long as you compete, we're gonna play our hearts out; we're improving every day.
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I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
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In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.
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I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.
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There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional Japanese roots. She was in love with her sword because she believed it contained her husband.
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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.
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I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.
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The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.
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The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.
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Mediocrity is underrated.
