Liane Balaban Quotes
Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.
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Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.
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Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
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In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.
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I do not really know what is my interview and performance style.
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I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.
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The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.
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When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.
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When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on
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For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.
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'Nothing he said indicated that he was that angry. I mean, there’s a difference between angry and murderous. Isn’t there?''Less than you’d think.'
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I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What's the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.
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Oh, make me laugh, make me cry. Make me wish we’d never met. Make me feel somethin’. And if it hurts, it’s alright, at least I know that we’re not dead. Make me feel somethin’.
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If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.
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Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.
