Tracy Spiridakos Quotes
I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.
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Funny is an attitude.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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Logician: A cat has four paws. Old Gentleman: My dog had four paws. Logician: Then it's a cat. Old Gentleman: So my dog is a cat? Logician: And the contrary is also true.
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In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm.
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When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.
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'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'
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you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.
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You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.
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I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.
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I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.
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I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.
