Marina Ann Hantzis (Sasha Grey) Quotes
Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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I'm quite a reserved person, a bit shy at first when I don't know someone. I like to have a laugh and a joke; people have seen that in me.
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Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.
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I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.
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I'm a very private person.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.
