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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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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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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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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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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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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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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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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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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I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.
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Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
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I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.
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If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are - then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith - from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion - from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers'.
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The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.
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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.
