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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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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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 came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.
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Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.
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I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.
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I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.
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I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
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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.
