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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What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
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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've done so many jobs because I've had to, not because I've wanted to. And it's honourable to do a job because you need to feed your children, and maybe there is also something in it for your development as an actor. But only up to a point.
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The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.
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I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice.
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Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.
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The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.
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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.
