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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I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
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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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Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
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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 Theory Of Everything' was a charming story, but I never dreamed it would turn out the way it did, winning all sorts of awards, and I don't think anybody working on it did.
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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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It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.
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I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.
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Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona – his struggles as a human being – that was interesting to me.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.
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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.
