Zoe Saldana (Zoe Saldana-Perego) Quotes

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

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• Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Together
  • Control
  • Digital

• We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Independent
  • Security
  • Independence

• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • People
  • Kid
  • Holidays

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Think
  • Food

• When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Great
  • Movies
  • Guilty

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Important
  • Sleep
  • Changes

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  

  Mae West
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Unless

• There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • People
  • Pride
  • Humility

• People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Speaking

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• I've just always been a bit of a dork.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Just
  • Dork

• In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Poetry
  • English

• When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Eyes

• Being in TV, we get to do it again and again until it's 'right.' There's a part of me that likes the other way, that aspect of theatre where there's no chance to go back.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Theatre

• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Great
  • Want
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