Selma Blair Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
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Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.
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Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.
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Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important. For instance, I've documented the gay pride parade from its first days.
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A 97-percent win is the kind of result you get in a one-party regime.
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I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
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In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.
