Poorna Jagannathan Quotes
The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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I would like to enlighten people.
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We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.
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The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
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One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.
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The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
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The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in.
