Christine de Pizan Quotes
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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My life is better with every year of living it.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.
