Natasha Mayers Quotes
We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet's survival. Compassion must be translated into action.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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I know if I play hard and show that I want to be a Knick, I know the fans will accept me.
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About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?
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You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.
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In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
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I remember the first time I saw 'Frances Ha' and was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.
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The older I get, I realize, 'Man, I'm a very rare bird,' and that's not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.
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Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
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I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.
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Racism in Brazil is well hidden, subtle, and unspoken, underestimated by the media. It is nevertheless extremely violent.
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Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
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My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet's survival. Compassion must be translated into action.
