Amelie Mauresmo Quotes
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
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Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.
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What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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Being in South Africa, that messed up my body a little bit. I broke out in spots, and I got really dehydrated, and the water was really different. It was really strange, because you're on the other side of the planet, and you think, 'Oh, water is the same everywhere,' and it is, but it still felt strange.
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I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.
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I try to distinguish my characters from each other.
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I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.
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Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.
