Saffron Burrows Quotes
It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I don't drink coffee.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.
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It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
