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 don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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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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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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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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I pack on mass quickly when I lift.
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To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.
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Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.
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Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.
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The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.
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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.
