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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Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.
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So dance dance dance Teach us to be true Come dance dance dance 'Cause we love you
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Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Bishop. All gay, of course, although I swear I didn't know that at the time. Yet all of them, it turned out, had had a parent who died during their childhood. Sexuality is nothing compared to that.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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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.
