Lana Parrilla Quotes
When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
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I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
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When you make a movie, you know you're making a long-form thing, so the visuals are different than for a video where it has to be more obvious or in your face, I think, a little bit.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.
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We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.
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When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
