Ione Skye Quotes
There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.
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Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
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Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.
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There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
