Mary-Louise Parker Quotes
I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
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By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
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Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
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Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'
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There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.
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There are people who marry themselves. Somebody wanted to marry a tree. People marrying their pets.
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I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.
