Joshua Leonard Quotes
I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
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I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.
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Sometimes gluten is even added to chips, which is really annoying.
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I feel my knees changing - like, why do I have this pain when I'm running on the treadmill? What's going on with my lower back when I wake up in the morning? I just feel changes. And I'm definitely fearful in a very vain manner about my body ageing.
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There's something about the West Coast. The air is lighter. The vibe is chill.
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I softened in my old age.
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Most people don't have the power of persuasion.
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Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
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I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
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The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.
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When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
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I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.
