#rent

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#advocate #challenge #conviction #coup #even

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#chameleon #different #i #kinds #limit

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#different #does #feeling #felt #first

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#against #always #ambition #been #first

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#being #different #different person #feels #getting

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#come #could #different #done #i

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#adds #am #being #believer #big

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#been #characters #define #did #differently

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family. ↗

— Ashley Olsen

#compare #each #family #feel #having

I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#because #brains #differently #everybody #extra