Lena Headey Quotes
One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.
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I lost myself, and a lot of characters I played, I have latched onto some of their identities just because I was so lacking in anything of my own.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.
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One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.
