Margaret Qualley Quotes
I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.

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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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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 am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark depths of Africa.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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I don't want to get fat.
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A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes. - Lemony Snicket
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I'm playing a cat burglar. I've made it. This is the high point of my career. I'm really chuffed.
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I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who wound me.
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My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.
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I am a different person in front of the camera; it comes as easy to me as breathing does.
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I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.