Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Colombians are sick of 'Narcos' stories because Colombia is a country that has changed so much. It's a country that's completely different from the country that we see in 'Narcos.' They reconstructed themselves in 25 years, which is amazing.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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Human beings are religious animals.
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Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
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I'm sorry that the family I was given has created so much chaos in the family I've chosen.
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One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was to serve the play. And I realized if an actor can make audiences' hearts resonate or make them question their values - that's an important thing to do!
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With access to the clubs, access to the strip joints. My house. My boat. We’re talking about high school football players. Not anybody can just get into the clubs or strip joints. Who is going to pay for it and make it happen? That was me.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.
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Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.
