Mary-Louise Parker Quotes
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is willing to act unilaterally - in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades.
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I was probably five when I first picked up a camera. My mom had an Olympus OM-10 that she carried around to document our family photos. And I just always loved it.
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All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
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I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.
