Miranda Cosgrove (Miranda Taylor Cosgrove) Quotes
I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
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It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.
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Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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You always learn something from mistakes.
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I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
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I love brunch. Brunch is my favorite meal.
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I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.
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Politicians are fond of criticizing others.
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Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.
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My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.
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I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
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I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.
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I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.
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I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.
