Morena Baccarin Quotes

#1. Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

#2. When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.

Juan Enriquez

#3. I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try to catch up on it when I can; it's one of my favorite shows.

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#4. I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like 'Coming to America' or 'Misery' or 'Moonstruck.'

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#5. Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

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#6. I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else.

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#7. I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair ... and its all good.

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#8. I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

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#9. More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't.

Chris Penn

#10. My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!

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#11. We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.

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#12. If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

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#13. What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. I don't have any powers other than the power of sex. And humor.

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#15. I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that? ...

John Geddes

#16. I feel, my love. Simply not in the same way you do. And thank heavens for that, because you are quite an embarrassment at times. Your inconsistent and flailing passions will no longer be a concern.

Kiersten White

#17. My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

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#18. I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

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#19. How can you enjoy ice cream if you never eat broccoli?

James Dashner

#20. I do think it is possible to be in love with two people at the same time.

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#21. There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

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#22. The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.

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#23. The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Harriet Martineau

#24. When I'm not working, I'm definitely a no-makeup girl. The most I ever do is a little tinted moisturizer and a little mascara and blush.

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#25. I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

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#26. Nothing can prep you for eight years of sex scenes in one day.

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#27. Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.

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#28. You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.

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#29. Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

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#30. I reached for something to hold on to and ended up leaning against the wall behind me

Penny Reid

#31. They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.

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#32. I love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear.

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#33. My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

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#34. I've love to do more movies. Just because I'm interested in the medium very much. I've done a lot of theatre at this point, and I've done a lot of TV. I've done a few independent films, but a lot of them have not seen the light of day. It'd be really nice to be in a film that gets out there.

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#35. I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

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#36. My mom was incredibly supportive when she found out that I wanted to be an actress, and that certainly made things easier and more fun.

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#37. Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I understand this. It's not my place to presume to tell people where they can live. But perhaps that dream will simply not be possible in the future.

Norman Foster

#38. I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely.

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