Natasha Richardson Quotes
I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
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I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come.
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I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.
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Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.
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The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
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I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
