Haley Bennett Quotes
Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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I think if you don't enjoy something, it's not sustainable.
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I'm just so used to music videos or live TV, so to really see something that's scripted and you have to do it over and over again to get every angle - it's fascinating to me. I would love to do a little acting.
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Bands can become absolutely huge and actually be pretty terrible musicians, and bands can be the most amazing songwriters and musicians in the world and never play for more than 10 people. With that in mind, getting successful doesn't mean anything.
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Oh God - I look back now, and it seems so gross. At just 14 years old, I had to wear a thong bikini. And then they used that scene in the trailer, so my entire school saw it! There are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!
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Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.
