Petra Nemcova Quotes
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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I like being by myself.
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I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
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I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.
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There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.
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You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'
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I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
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All men are dogs
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You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.
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It’s good to be here. I’m just trying to go through life without looking stupid. It’s not working out too well.
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime.
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It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.
