Marin Ireland Quotes
As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic oath.
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In my country, though it is very patriarchal and male-dominated, the public enjoys women-directed movies.
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What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.
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For the pie scene, people asked if I read the script and said: 'Oh my god, do I have to do that?' No - I said: 'I hope that's me. I hope I get that part.''
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In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder - the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should do the same in medicine.
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As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.
