Asia Argento Quotes
Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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I love evening tuberoses. My mother used to have tuberoses in her garden, and in the summers in Sacramento, it would get really hot and then cool down in the evenings. You'd walk up the driveway, and it made it feel like 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.
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There's been this strange irony to my whole life. All my original bandmates have died, when I was the most wild and most reckless of us all. But I'm still here.
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Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.
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My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people's!
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Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.
