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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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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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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It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.
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Maybe to my own detriment, but I watched all of 'Fargo' probably more than once. And I tend to be a little critical of myself. But I can also let things go. So I can think, 'Well, that moment didn't read as well as I thought it would,' but it doesn't keep me up at night.
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
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It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write about red-headed kids who grew up in small town Montana. That's really part of the fun of fantasy, I think. Our imagination is basically unlimited. Okay, that's a terrifying thing about fantasy, too.
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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
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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.
