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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A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
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There's nothing better than renting a small, 50-seat theater in L.A. and just getting up there.
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It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
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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.
