Mira Sorvino Quotes

Being is like pretending.

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• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Like
  • Hands

• I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Movies

• Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.

  

  T.I.
  • Best
  • Like
  • Salesman

• When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Like
  • Boy
  • Young

• I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Want
  • Like
  • Painting

• I can swear like a fishwife.

  

  Frances Bay
  • Like
  • I Can
  • Swear

• Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Speed
  • Quantity

• I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Like
  • Something
  • Say

• I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Old
  • Vinyl

• I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Decide

• My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Me
  • Like
  • Son

• Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• Love, and do what you like.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • You
  • Like

• I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Intense

• I loved being in a band.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Band
  • Being
  • Loved

• I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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  • Religious
  • Religion

• I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Like

• I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Me
  • Like
  • Sound

• I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • World
  • Like
  • Environmental

• Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Age
  • Guitar

• Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book.

  

  Debby Applegate
  • Book
  • Words
  • Brilliant

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • You
  • Never
  • Story

• Being is like pretending.

  

  Mira Sorvino
  • Like
  • Being
  • Pretending