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Lucy Lawless Quotes

I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your reflexes pick up, and I've become quite good - if somebody throws keys or something, I can catch them.

Lucy Lawless

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: March 29, 1968

Topics

Good Blue Black Enough You I Can

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

Jimmy Wales

Knowledge People Me Help Hands

What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.

Joan Collins

Work Hard Work Training School Weird

But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.

Michael Gruber

Character Art People Care Fake You

America needs a big idea that plays to its strength. It should look to national service.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Strength Service America Look Big

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.

Summer Glau

World Someone You Lying Try Never

Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.

Simon Mainwaring

Government Opportunities Partnerships

I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.

Mary Steenburgen

Work Me Bad Years Because Offering

A diverse customer base helps insulate you; a few large accounts can leave you vulnerable to their whims.

Jason Fried

Customer You Leave Large Few Base

Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

Joseph Hall

Myself Me Know Others Guess

I don't know - I don't listen to the radio that much. I really am an old-soul kind of girl.

Ciara

Girl Know Kind Listen Radio Much

Theater's wonderful because it's visceral, and it's happening in front of you, but you never get that close. So the close-up is a great privilege of film.

Alice Eve

Great You Privilege Never Close-Up

I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

Sheryl Sandberg

Mother Myself Choices Believe Choose