Anna Paquin Quotes
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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I want to dress well. I want to look good.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.
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Love is just chemistry.
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I've learned in my life that things change. Seasons changes, times change. We take different jobs. Our children grow. So, we have to study the people in our lives and adapt to them, because when we do that, we get more out of our relationships.
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I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.
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One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.
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'When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much.'
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Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.
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I think women rule the world, and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
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You think it impossible the Convention could have a thought of war with Great Britain, and the conquest of Canada. In this point I differ from you very widely. The conduct of Great Britain, and the conduct of our States, too, was such as to keep up very serious apprehensions between the two powers. The treaty of peace was not fulfilled on either side.
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The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.
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I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh.
