Shari Sebbens Quotes
It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
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You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
Nastassja Kinski -
To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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I like routine.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
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Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away.
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I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.
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Actors are not necessarily smart people.
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My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
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My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
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It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
