Mira Sorvino Quotes
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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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.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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Love, and do what you like.
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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.
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I loved being in a band.
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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.
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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.
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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I'm from San Bernardino, California. It's, like, all cows and dairies and very open.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
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I'm very artistic and creative, disorganised - ambitious, I would say, if that even makes sense. I'm definitely not the most mathematical person in the world; not scientific. I can't even work out a tip; it's really sad. But I've always thought, play up your strengths and let someone else handle your weaknesses. It's OK. Work together.
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Being is like pretending.
