Zosia Mamet Quotes
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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Fashion is one big family.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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I needed to pay for my horses in Warwickshire, and I couldn't do that off a waitress' wage.
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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.
