Ana Lily Amirpour Quotes
If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I want to make smart choices.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.
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I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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I know I'm never going to be one of those size 2 actresses – that's just not me. But I do want to be the healthiest I can be, and a role model to women of all shapes and sizes.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.
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Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
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I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.
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If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level.
