Marian Seldes Quotes
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.
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It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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There are times when the only people you spend time with are the people in your team. That's hard, because I think, 'I'm a girl. I want to hang out with other girls. I just want to be a normal young woman.'
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'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
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My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch 'Come Dancing.' It was actually my granny who was the biggest fan; she loved the show, and she passed on her passion for it to me. I loved the dancing but also the frocks and the glamour.
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I enjoyed giving back to the city I was born and raised in.
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You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry.
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I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
