Fairuza Balk Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top priority.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.
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America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
