Malin Akerman Quotes
I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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We know the climate is changing. We don't know if it will be really bad or nearly apocalyptic. Both are within the realm of possibility.
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
