Alicia Silverstone Quotes
I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.
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I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.
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Any time they try to describe the tsunami to us, I am so touched by how high they look in the air, when they explain it with their hands-they go so high.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.
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I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick.
