Elizabeth Marvel Quotes
If I'm asking people to give me two hours of their time, it's because I really feel like they need to listen to what the writer is talking about.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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No two wars are identical.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism.
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A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.
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I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.
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So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.
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If I'm asking people to give me two hours of their time, it's because I really feel like they need to listen to what the writer is talking about.
