Mikaela Hoover Quotes
I loved playing Jackie on 'Happy Endings.' It was really exciting to be in the pilot and then be able to come back. Her character was so much fun!
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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I want to get up at 6 A.M. and go swimming and do 30 lengths.
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If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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Woman are complex creatures.
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The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.
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Fans hate a hypocrite. I believe they detect the real you behind every role and if they are led to believe you are something you pretend you aren't, they resent it.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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The show is definitely not just about weight-loss physically. It's more about finding yourself. It's really funny because I realized at one of our table reads that 'Huge' was really about the weight that we carry around mentally.
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I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.
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Sometimes I think I disguise myself as a teacher in order to make the pictures I need to see.
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When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it's so bad.
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I loved playing Jackie on 'Happy Endings.' It was really exciting to be in the pilot and then be able to come back. Her character was so much fun!
