Aileen Quinn Quotes
It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.
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At 'Women's Wear', I always said, 'Get it first - get the bacon.'
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Passion is what drives me forward. Passion is what makes me go to bed at 2am and wake up at 6am.
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It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.
