I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the … - Evangeline Lilly

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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

Evangeline Lilly

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

People, Succeed, Successful

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I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.

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I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.

Ambiguity, Evil, Overtly, Play, Thinking

I think I'm not always what I seem.

Seems, Think, Thinking

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

Acting, Actually, Passion, Write, Writing

I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

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Vince Vaughn

Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they'd be more open to the fact that there's more than one path to the waterfall.

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Zelda Fitzgerald

Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.

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Joseph Campbell

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

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Dana Gould

The more women walk around in sweat pants, the harder it is to tell who's out jogging and who's running away from a mugger.

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