Tricia Helfer Quotes
My husband says I like animals more than I like people. I take that as the compliment he means it as.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I come from a poor family.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else.
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Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.
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I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
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I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure job, I don't need a wide readership to survive. I'm a participant in the indirect economy, what sociological critic Pierre Bourdieu would call the "economic world reversed." I get "paid" by writing whatever I choose. That's a pretty good position to be in, but I don't pretend for a moment that it is not a privileged one.
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Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.
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My husband says I like animals more than I like people. I take that as the compliment he means it as.
