Patti Smith Quotes
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
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There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
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My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.
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Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
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My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.
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I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.
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The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.
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Checking your telomere length is a bit like weighing yourself: you get this single number which depends on a lot of factors. Telomere length gives a sense of your underlying health.
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Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
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I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.
