Mena Suvari Quotes
I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.
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I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.
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I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.
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What's Buffy got? A wooden stake, some garlic. Xena has a full arsenal of weapons.
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What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.
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Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.
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Onstage, I was never the ingenue.
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With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.
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I can eat Chipotle all day long for years.
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I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.
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My sisters and my mum taught me how to be a woman: the way they carry themselves, the way they talk to people, the way they know how to put their foot down. They're not having any nonsense from no one. I can see traces of that in me.
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Matching tattoos don't ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship.
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Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.
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All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.
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I think for a heroine to do comedy and action and also be glamorous is a big thing. That's why 'Supreme' will be very close to my heart.
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I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.
