Anna Paquin Quotes
It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.
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Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.
Colson Whitehead -
I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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All I'm doing is putting Brancusi's 'Endless Column' on the ground, instead of in the sky. Most sculpture is priapic with the male organ in the air. In my work, Priapus is down on the floor. The engaged position is to run along the earth.
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There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth.
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It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.
