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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I don't want to get fat.
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I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at.
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A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected.
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I'm zero to a hundred in almost every facet of my life.
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The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
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I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.
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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.
