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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I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.
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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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Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.
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I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.
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Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
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The best ruler, the one who is of any real value, should not only perform all the duties which fall to his lot, but should provide for the rest of his subjects, so that they can develop their virtues to the full.
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I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.
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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.
