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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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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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 don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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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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There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage just for economic security or social respectability. So today, the best way to get women once more interested in getting married and having children is for men to accept women's new insistence on equality. This is, I think, why educated women in America, are now more pro - marriage and more disapproving of divorce than other groups of women who have less experience with egalitarian partners or less clout in getting their needs met in relationships.
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Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
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My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.
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Love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
