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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I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.
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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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Be open-minded and available to everything and not just saying it's Jesus Christ or bust. So much of the world will do that. I find it troubling... Don't be dogmatic.
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I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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No matter what your hair looks like once it's wet, it's about embracing it and loving yourself for you and all that that entails.
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In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.
