Laura Prepon Quotes
The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
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He's the leader of this team, and when he wasn't out there it was evident that we needed him.
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He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.
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The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.
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The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
