Maggie Siff Quotes
I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
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New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
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Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and life history, such as how long it is going to live, how many offspring it will have, the length of its aorta, how long it will take to mature, what is the pulse rate in the ninth branch of its circuitry.
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TV actors are doing great in Bollywood. We have our own market, our own fans, who love to see us on the big screen.
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Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.
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And we feel things less than we did when we were kids, because we’ve grown so much scar tissue, or our senses have dulled.
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I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.
