Mena Suvari Quotes
Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
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Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
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I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
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One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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So now the devil's in my soul.
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I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.
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The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied.
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I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.
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They only the victory win, Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within; Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high; Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight -- if need be, to die.
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Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.
