Marian Seldes Quotes
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'
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I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.
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I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.
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I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.
