Mia Kirshner Quotes
It?s not me to sleep with loads of men, but I do believe in having different experiences. At the end of the day, the nicest thing is the old-fashioned one-on-one.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
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I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
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For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.
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I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.
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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
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I'm on my own now. I have my own apartment.
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For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.
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I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
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It?s not me to sleep with loads of men, but I do believe in having different experiences. At the end of the day, the nicest thing is the old-fashioned one-on-one.
