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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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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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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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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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.
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I've been touring a lot, and I don't always know how to get around. Google Maps on the iPhone is pretty helpful with that.
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After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.
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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.
