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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Class
  • Greek

• What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

  

  Zendaya
  • Done
  • She
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Experience
  • Political

• I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Kids
  • Anxiety
  • Pressure

• I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Want
  • Everyday
  • Own

• My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Age
  • Man
  • Change

• 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.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Done
  • Better
  • Discussion

• Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Country
  • Today
  • Trade

• In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Better
  • Look
  • Did

• I do not really know what is my interview and performance style.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Know
  • Style
  • Performance

• I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Air

• The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Life
  • Power
  • Focus

• When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.

  

  Patanjali
  • Mind

• When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

  

  Adrian Mitchell
  • High
  • Hope
  • Sad

• 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.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • World
  • Food
  • Simple

• 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.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • War
  • Hate

• There are huge pain points experienced by parents. It's hard to find good child care options in one place. It's hard figure out things to do with your kids on the weekends or after school. It's hard to find iPad apps for your kids that you are confident are helping them learn vs. just being entertained.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• HBO is the original subscription video-on-demand company. We were repurposing first-run movies, and then we added original programming.

  

  Jeff Bewkes

• As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances.

  

  Jasmila Zbanic
  • Kids

• Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Wish

• I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Start

• Even a very brief tape-delay introduces a form of censorship into the broadcast - not direct governmental control, but it means that a network representative is in effect guessing at what a government might tolerate, which can be even worse.

  

  Frank Pierson
  • Control

• As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.

  

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Liane Balaban