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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Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
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Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.
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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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We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.
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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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I saw 'Sleeping Beauty' when I was, like, 6 years old at the Mercury Theatre. Then, when I came to Disney, I was in the company of these wonderful artists. People like Glen Keane, like Mark Henn, who were brilliant animators who could really bring these things to life.
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I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the audience won't understand it;" "let's not make the girls wear corsets, because it's not sexy" and all that sort of thing. Gradually it disintegrates into a no man's land: you don't really believe it's a period scene and it doesn't feel like it's now because it's not now. You don't feel it's quite real and you don't believe in it.
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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.
