Zoe Saldana (Zoe Saldana-Perego) Quotes
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
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With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.
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I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
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I think confidence is a big part of it. Also luck - the ball has got to fall for you in the right time and the right place.
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I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.
