Mena Suvari Quotes
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
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From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.
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Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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Edward Smith: Would you like to see your pictures on as many walls as possible, then?Andy Warhol: Uh, no, I like them in closets.
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Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.
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Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.
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Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
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Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.
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You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.
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I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people.
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We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.
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You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.
