Yvonne Strahovski Quotes
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.
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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
