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 eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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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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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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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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If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.
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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
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Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.
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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.
