Maggie Siff Quotes

#1. As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'

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#2. I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

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#3. Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

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#4. The formula 'two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

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#6. For me to get to work with a writer-director over time in developing a project - my investment feels much more profound. I know that whatever is on the other end I'm going to feel that much closer to.

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#7. The reason, as I had learned from my father, is that there is no certainty in death. Because there is no beginning or end, there is no way to measure how long your time.

Terry Goodkind

#8. I was an English major in college!

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#9. In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton's songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!

Tom Paxton

#10. I so never went through a bad-girl period.

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#11. Im not your biggest girly girl.

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#12. I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

Billy Crudup

#13. If you want to survive Ebola, you need to be young. If you're in your late 30s, the death rate is about 80 percent, and if you're over 45, then the death rate goes up to about 90 percent.

Richard Preston

#14. The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

Chad Hurley

#15. If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Mae West

#16. In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

Alan Alda

#17. I want to work in art forever.

Dasha Zhukova

#18. Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it, and then you're done. You have no control, no say, and all of a sudden there's all of this distance between the work you've put into something and the product as you see it appear on-screen.

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#19. I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.

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#20. Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

Wellington Mara

#21. The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

Eugene Mirman

#22. Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I think there comes a moment when you've matured to the point where you suddenly think, nonsense. I am fine just the way I am.

Anna Quindlen

#23. You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.

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#24. The omelette tasted like flannel.

James Blish

#25. The time one has to live is like the sun peeping through clouds,

Dalai Lama XIV

#26. A day on a film set is maddening.

Maggie Siff