Up Quotes
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I was an energetic child, always walking on my hands, flipping off of the back of the couch, or jumping up and down on my bed.
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I don't think if you looked up all the main points of feminism I would tick every one essentially myself.
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When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.
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I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress. I wanted more than that, and I had always loved politics, so I ended up changing my major completely, and double-majoring in theater and international relations.
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Things have got to add up to 100 points. The script is part of it, the character is part of it, the people I'm working with is the third part of it - and any combination of the three has got to add up to 100 points.
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So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.
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When you have a lot of communication online before you go out with someone, it builds up a false sense of who the person is. There's a tendency to fill in the blanks with positive information.
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My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.
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When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare.
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The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.
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Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
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I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.
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I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.
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I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.
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There's the chiselled superhero that we're used to seeing and we've all grown up with. But Doctor Who has never been that, which is wonderful. It's attainable in so many ways.
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Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.
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Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.
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As an athlete, I know that I'm such a perfectionist that I'll want to go out and keep working on something over and over until it's perfect. Part of growing up is learning to take a step back.
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I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.
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I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.
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You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).
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Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
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What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
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I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
