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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I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
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Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
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I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.
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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.
