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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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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A fundamental premise in cancer therapy is trying to identify how the metabolism of cancer cells differs from normal tissue. When differences are identified, it often paves the way for treatments that will disrupt the cancer's metabolism while sparing normal tissue.
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My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.
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I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
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A door once opened may be stepped through in either direction.
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Mediocrity is underrated.
