Mary-Louise Parker Quotes
The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
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My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.
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I love New York.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.
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I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I'm also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual painting of what's in my mind.
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Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
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The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it's the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.'
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There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.
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The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.
