Alanna Ubach Quotes
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
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It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
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I was always the poor kid, even though I very much tried to pretend to be the other way. Always well presented. Always really active in the school, doing fashion shows, plays, involved in every single aspect of the school. Overcompensating, I think, for the fact that I knew I wouldn't be going on the ski trip every January.
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One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'
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It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
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If I wasn't modelling, I'd probably be an intern somewhere, working for someone who interned the year before me.
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I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
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Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.
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You can’t change what you don’t understand.
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For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
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Okay. I've got three. Which one would you like to speak to first?
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One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.
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I don't strive for balance. I just try to get through my to-do list, with my kids' homework being at the top of it, and then try to prepare for the next audition or whatever scene I'm shooting next. Balance.
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I act with my gut instincts.
