Alycia Debnam-Carey Quotes

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Really
  • Immortality
  • Guess

• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Role
  • Lady
  • Attracted

• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • War
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Succeed
  • Russian

• But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Media

• Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • Character
  • American

• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Health
  • Disappointed
  • Wars

• I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Me
  • Waiting

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Vision
  • Capital
  • Scarce

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Character
  • Me
  • Better

• I don't let anything kill my spirit.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Spirit
  • Anything

• I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• I did charity events with the Cup all the time.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Charity
  • Cup

• At 21 years old, I found myself in Vancouver, and that's where I got the part for my first movie. I was sitting in a restaurant, and the director came up to me and asked me to read for his film. I really took it with a grain of salt. It was the creepiest casting situation, probably. It turned out that it wasn't.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
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  • Movie

• I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Yourself

• For me, the best way to unwind at the end of the day while I'm pregnant is to take a nice, long soak. I get in my bathtub, download a show onto my computer, prop it up on a chair, and just lie there watching and relaxing.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Up
  • Long
  • Nice

• Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.

  

  James E. Faust
  • God
  • Hope
  • Future

• I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
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