Alex O'Loughlin Quotes
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.
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Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
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I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
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I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.
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We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
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What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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I'm proud to represent the average woman.
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When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.
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The fact that terrorists have yet again targeted not U.S. or UK troops but an international organization... shows the depth of depravity to which they stoop.
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I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
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Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?
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I like playing the villain.
