Laura Vandervoort Quotes
I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
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I speak my mind. That's who I am.
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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
