Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
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'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
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Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.
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We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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'Star Wars' came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce.
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Every single wave, when I was overwhelmed and poor and struggling in New York, there were these extraordinary people in New York who said, 'Come this way.'
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No matter what you do, black lace tends to look a little Spanish.
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I'm not entirely sure why I write about family, but I do know that it hasn't stopped interesting me. You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are constant links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads.
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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
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I feel that success is the best revenge in this world.
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If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.
