Elizabeth Marvel Quotes
You always hear about the disempowered actor, their fate in other people's hands. It's just really wonderful to experience it the other way around.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I'm not a sun person.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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Thats why my biggest problems were with LL and Run.
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People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we have not engaged in.
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I have a little name. That's why people can remember it.
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One of my favorite things about my life is that I have the same group of friends that I grew up with. I love them so dearly, and we give each other a hard time.
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You always hear about the disempowered actor, their fate in other people's hands. It's just really wonderful to experience it the other way around.
