Selma Blair Quotes
I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.
Quotes to Explore
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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While President Obama may not have ordered any surveillance of Trump or his advisors, the real question is whether he or Attorney General Loretta Lynch were aware of or approved of any surveillance of Trump and his staff during the campaign.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
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Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.
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Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.
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People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.
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The Author to the Reader I’ve read that Luther said (it’s come to me So often that I’ve made it into meter):And even if the world should end tomorrowI still would plant my little apple-tree.Here, reader, is my little apple-tree.
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.
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I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where they're going to end up. It's interesting territory for fiction.
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I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.
