John Selden Quotes
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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I don't want to be on the road all my life.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.
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Pain has been part of my life. I don't complain about much. When you grow up with six boys, you can't show your pain, and if you do, they'll give you another piece of pain.
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'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain. When the right numbers are reached, their holocaust starts all over again! Another merry-go-round/ bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual!!! Protectionists/welfarists find it a profitable issue: no controversy/ easy donations! I'd rather see an entire species extinct than in the hands of the humans!
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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I would say that I learned that the heartbreak wasn't as much about me as the fact that my partner wasn't right with himself. I see where his life has taken him, and realize that the handwriting was on the wall. There were things that I had blamed myself for, but it was really more about his choices, his needs and his journey as a person. His desire for too much of everything made it a challenging relationship.
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I really don't have to answer to nobody.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
