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It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough for the lead roles, and you're too present for the supporting roles - you'd overpower the lead.'
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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If I could miracle myself away, I would live out West.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough for the lead roles, and you're too present for the supporting roles - you'd overpower the lead.'
