Oscar Isaac Quotes
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.
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I am forever living in my childhood.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
