Mary-Louise Parker Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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I always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them or not.
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In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!
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I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
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I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
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Being able to evolve great franchises over time is the foundation of world-class entertainment companies.
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I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
