Carla Gugino Quotes
I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.
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I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
