Yvette Mimieux Quotes
I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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I do not like violence.
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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Hopefully, we will get more and more people interested in doing research in space. I think eventually it's also going to be a great commercial market.
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I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
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When Howard Marks came out of prison, years later, I met him at a concert in South Wales; I was a young whippersnapper and Howard was kind of an outlaw hero. I said to him - and it's on tape, a cousin of his filmed our meeting - I said, "If you write a book, I want to play you in a movie." He said, "Let's shake on it," and we did. Thirteen years later, there we were, making the movie.
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That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.
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I am very tall, and when you're a teenager, you want to be like everyone else. I used to slump a lot; it's very human at that stage to want to be part of the crowd and not want any part of you that is sticking out.
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I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.
