Amber Denise Streeter (Sevyn Streeter) Quotes
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been addicted to video games ever since.
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I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.
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My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.
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I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.
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I think about 'The Hurt Locker,' and we made a film about three guys, three different looking guys with three very different energies.
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Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.
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I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.
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Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.
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People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.
