Mira Sorvino Quotes
More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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My life is my message.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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‘Do you know,’ said a thoughtful Bean, ‘I’ll bet that if all the girls Freddie Widgeon has loved were placed end to end-not that I suppose one could do it-they would reach half-way down Piccadilly.’‘Further than that,’ said the Egg. ‘Some of them were pretty tall.’
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Riding through the city on my bike all day Cause the filth took away my license It doesn't get me down and I feel OK Cause the sights that I'm seeing are pricelessEverything seems to look as it shouldBut I wonder what goes on behind doorsA fella looking dapper, but he's sitting with a slapperThen I see it's a pimp and his crack whore.
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If somebody judges me, then they're not my people, and that's all right.
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I never went to work on a movie set until I was a producer and director.
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The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
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While I'm working on something, every single part of me is in it. But then, once it's done, I leave that place behind. I usually don't like to revisit it. So it's almost like listening to a different person.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.
