Q'orianka Kilcher Quotes
Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.
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People would ask what college are you going to, and I'd say, 'San Diego State.' And they'd say, 'Why?'
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Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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Read everything you can get your hands on.
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Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
