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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Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.
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If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
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Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
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Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.
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Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.
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Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.
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My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.
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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.
