Jean Smart Quotes
When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
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If you keep looking backwards, you don't go anywhere.
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I'm sure I've lost a few jobs because I'm a Christian. That's irrelevant. I can honestly say that of everything I have, of everything I've experienced, nothing compares to the joy of knowing Christ. Because I've been given a glimpse of Heaven and it outshines all of the rest.
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As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
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Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right." He just comfort-eats a little bit too much. He's just asleep in his own life and has let himself go. And the mustache, I don't know if it was him or I suggested it. But I remember my sister was watching me eat and she was like, "God, does he have to be fat?" And in retrospect I couldn't think of David being any other way because it affected the way I moved. It really did. It slowed me down in a way that I felt was conducive to kind of tapping into the spirit of the character.
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I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.
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When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.
