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 can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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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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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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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 Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.
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I'm used to people with very high IQs knowing how to recognize reality, but there's a huge human tendency where it may be instructive to think that whatever you're doing to succeed is all right.
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Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.
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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.
