Tatiana Maslany Quotes
I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!
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Setbacks help you to concentrate.
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I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.
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I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.
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I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
