Merritt Wever Quotes
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.
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I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.
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Intelligence is not a science.
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It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
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I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith.
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I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
