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Mia Wasikowska Quotes

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.

Mia Wasikowska

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: australian
Birth: October 14, 1989

Topics

Character Time Man Brain Green Real

Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.

Joe Gebbia

Design Bias Overcome Rooted Most

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

Jessica Valenti

Women Woman Motherhood Place Virtue

Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.

Meghan Markle

Food Travel Amazing You Real Eat

I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

Jeff Bridges

Life Me Free Know More Difficult

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

Stacy London

Style Yourself Joy You Joyful Allow

We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life.

Tracy McMillan

Life Time Culture My Life You Never

I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.

Mickey Spillane

Good Smoke Try Drink Shape Stay

We didn't have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on shows. But it was just a fun thing to do; I never thought about it as a profession. That started as a fluke; my mother had a friend who was an artist with a theater company, and I started going there after school because my mom knew I'd be safe.

Julia Stiles

Friend Mother Coffee School Fun Mom

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Joseph Sobran

Purpose Government Empire Defense

So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

Anthony Edwards

Camera First Scene Ever Hal Hugely

I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.

Alice McDermott

Work Goals Time Me Think End

Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

Peter Asher

People Sometimes First Take Off