Mara Wilson Quotes
I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.
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Digital world is changing its home, and I am in search of an evolution that exists beyond the digital world.
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So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level.
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.
