Mariska Hargitay Quotes

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

Mariska Hargitay

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PeopleMeThinkYouKindGlamorous

I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.

Jimmy Iovine

BusinessMusicEverythingStuff

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

John Cusack

CriticismYouSatireSocialGoing

I actually like the sort of industrial, working-class woman like Rosie the Riveter, so I'm kind of like the sort of street style of the '50s.

Andra Day

StyleWomanKindStreetIndustrial

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

John Henrik Clarke

PeopleYouOppressionFirstConvince

Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are treated like cars on roads where there are rules and codes of behavior, and successful, accident-free outcomes depend on everyone respecting them. As on roads, this doesn't always work.

Rose George

WorkSeaRoadsControlBusyRules

All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a film on the basis of, 'Is it important enough? Is it serious enough?' It's either alive or it's not for me. If it's alive, I want to do it.

Mike Nichols

ArtMeProcessDecisionsEnoughYou

Even when you're producing difficult material and you get emotional, after it you feel good; you feel like you've done a good job, or had an emotional release. I've always enjoyed that, but you go home and think, that was a good day's work, and you move on.

Jonny Lee Miller

WorkGoodHomeDayJobFeel Good

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

Dennis Quaid

LoveYourselfLuckYouActingKnow

I got in the audition line called 'Making the Band' because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn't, I would have done 'American Idol.'

Dawn Richard

AmericanDoneBandLineGotIdol

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

Debbie Harry

ThinkRegretsGoingLotThem

The BJP is not a party dependent on a single individual, nor is it tied to the apron strings of a family.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

FamilyPartySingleIndividualTied

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'

William Safire

CultureManAmericanNowStrawUsed

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