Anna Paquin Quotes
I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.
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I was bitten by an octopus.
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We might be more inclined to think about the longer term if we were more aware of what is happening around us. Perhaps daily weather forecasts could include a few basic facts about the Earth's vital signs or details of where climate change is increasing the likelihood of damaging weather?
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My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.
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I never like revealing too much about myself. Once you start giving people that look into your life, then they just want more and more.
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I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.
