Marina Ann Hantzis (Sasha Grey) Quotes
From a creative standpoint, I'm interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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Influence is strange. Because one can be influenced powerfully in every way but technique. For instance, I would think Walt Whitman probably had more influence on my whole poetic thinking than anybody, but I never dreamed of trying to write in the Whitman manner.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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You cannot be creative with people around you.
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Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.
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From a creative standpoint, I'm interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.
