Kelly Marie Tran Quotes
I didn't know there was this sort of immediate camaraderie that's very intense when you make a movie because you're all in this together. You tend to get really close to people really fast.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the 'feel good' neurotransmitter.
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Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.
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As we consume more than ever, climate change is accelerating as well. In fact, we know that 2014 was the hottest year in human history. These pressures combine to create real threats to security and stability around the world.
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It was the old New York way of taking life 'without effusion of blood': the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than 'scenes,' except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.
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I didn't know there was this sort of immediate camaraderie that's very intense when you make a movie because you're all in this together. You tend to get really close to people really fast.
