Franka Potente Quotes
When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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I told my wife that since we have a little one on the way, maybe when he gets old enough, instead of just taking a vacation to the beach or Disney World or something like that, we go and do something that actually has an impact on other people. That would be neat for him to experience and for us to do as a family.
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'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
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The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about.
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When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.
