Mira Sorvino Quotes

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

Mira Sorvino

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• Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

  

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• I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

  

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• I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

  

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• It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.

  

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• I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

  

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• The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

  

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• Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.

  

  Venus Williams
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• Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Reading
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• If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'

  

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• Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Think
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• In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

  

  Walt Whitman
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  • Happy
  • Single

• I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Remember
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Refuge
  • Shallow
  • Seriousness

• By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I was very insecure at the beginning of my career. I didn't value my talent. I would have probably skipped signing up for movies that I didn't want to do if I had understood that I had been accepted and people liked my work.

  

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• I just love asking questions. I love people. It's in my DNA. I'm cursed - and blessed.

  

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  • People
  • Blessed
  • Questions

• I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Way
  • Hero
  • Bond

• I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.

  

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  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Role

• Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

  

  Mira Sorvino
  • Something
  • Plays
  • Audiences