Rebecca Mader Quotes
When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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People want you to fail.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.
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The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
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I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.
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The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.
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Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
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I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.
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Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.
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Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.
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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.
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One of America's best investments in peace and security is our special relationship with Israel.
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All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.
