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.
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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.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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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.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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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.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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I don't study; I create.
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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.
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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.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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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.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.
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When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.
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The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.
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I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.
