Malin Akerman Quotes
A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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I'm in a really nice position because I can be selective with the modeling jobs that I do and just work with brands I'm passionate about. The two worlds balance out nicely for me because modeling is so social - it has travel, you meet people, it's extroverted. Whereas painting is very solitary - when I paint, I'm kind of in my own world.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
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Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.
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I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.
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It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.
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Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.
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I don't like allegories.
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I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists.
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I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.
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A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.
