Lauren Cohan Quotes
We're always grasping to feel safe. Ultimately, some people feel safe through love or family or community. Some people through exerting control.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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I'm a pacifist by nature.
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When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.
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I had a blast. 'Shark Tank' embodies the American Dream. If you watch the show at home, you find yourself constantly hollering at the Sharks. Being able to sit next to them and call them out in real time was quite a privilege.
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I go to an all-Hawaiian school, and we learn everything about being Hawaiian. We have a really deep respect for the water and the land. We say, 'mauka to makai,' mountains to ocean. I believe if you take care of the ocean, the ocean will take care of you in return.
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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We're always grasping to feel safe. Ultimately, some people feel safe through love or family or community. Some people through exerting control.
