Mena Suvari Quotes

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

Mena Suvari

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• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  

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• If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

  

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• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  

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• We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.

  

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• By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

  

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• I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.

  

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• I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?

  

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• The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.

  

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• What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.

  

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• There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.

  

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• Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.

  

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• I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

  

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• If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

  

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• I think that Matt Murdock, the way he kind of holds himself, he's quite sensible at times, and he's quite serious. I think he would admire Captain America - not that he wouldn't admire Iron Man, but I think he probably be a little put off by his grandiosity.

  

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• One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

  

  Mena Suvari
  • Serious
  • Process
  • Public