Frances O'Connor Quotes
The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I don't like controversy.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!
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I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
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One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
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. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.
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The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.
