Sister Parish Quotes
Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.
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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
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I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.
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Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.
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I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.
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Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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Most of my work is based in Hyderabad, so it makes sense that I own a house here. Another reason I want a home here is because I want to have my own kitchen so that I can cook, since I hate food from hotels.
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The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
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Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.
