Malin Akerman Quotes
New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.
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I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
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I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
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Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.
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I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
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I don’t like religion because it relies on other people - you shouldn’t need to rely on others for knowledge. I think the only thing you need to believe is in yourself. I think people are weak if they need something to worship.
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The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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My life really began when I married my husband.
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Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.
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New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.
