Pretty Quotes
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My experience on 'The West Wing' was, I think, now rare in that I was pretty young, and I walked into this environment where Aaron Sorkin was giving me a script every week, and Thomas Schlamme and John Wells were keeping the studio off my back, at least as best as they could.
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The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining … to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
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Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.
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I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
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Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
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Honestly, I am not a huge beauty girl, so I'm pretty low-maintenance, California.
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Going into the second arc, I'm making a conscious effort to do something I say I never do, which is to change my style because of feedback. I'm trying to make 'Pretty Deadly' more accessible by being more clear in the writing.
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My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.
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It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.
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My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say.
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I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do it.
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I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
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War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.
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A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.
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Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.
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I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.
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I think we all carry a depressive streak in us but most people just hide it. A lot of people think that entertainment has to be something loud, cheerful and happy. I don't buy into it. Depression can be very inspiring. At least for me it can be. The quiet aspects of life are very important, because let's face it, life is pretty difficult.
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You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.
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We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.
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I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.
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To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.
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I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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Personally I feel for the fans because I remember the period of time when Michael Schumacher was winning. I remember waking up in the morning to watch the start of the race and then going to sleep, and then waking up when it ended because I already knew what would happen. I am pretty sure a lot of people were doing that today.
