Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.
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Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
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My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.'
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Just stay real and stay a real person.
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There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
