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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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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I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors together to do workshops and readings. And I ended up directing three or four productions.
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Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.
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I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.
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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.
