C. S. Lewis Quotes
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
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The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
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There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is understand and then acknowledge and then accept those properties. That's kind of the baseline requirement to have a productive relationship.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
