Elizabeth McGovern Quotes

Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

Elizabeth McGovern

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• At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
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  • Beginning
  • Choice

• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
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  • School
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• I hope to work till I'm an old lady.

  

  Tamra Davis
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  • Hope
  • Lady

• It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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  • Good
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• It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
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  • English
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• I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

  

  Raf Simons
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  • Feeling

• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
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  • Great

• I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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  • Women

• It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

  

  Gavin MacLeod
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  • Guy
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• There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

  

  Aaron Carter
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• I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.

  

  Dan Coats
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  • Live
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• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
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• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.

  

  Vicente Fox
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• It's hard separating work from personal life.

  

  Jack McCollough
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• This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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  • Important
  • Truth

• Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

  

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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  • Politeness

• But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense something of which we might say, if we wished to talk about it, that 'this is red.'

  

  J. L. Austin
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• I have really big features, so a little makeup goes a long way. I would hate to look like a clown.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
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• As far as base humiliation goes, acting is a tough business. It's a tough, embarrassing thing to do for a living when you're starting out, and you better not have any ego or pride, because that will be wiped away clean by utter devastation.

  

  Adam Scott
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• The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.

  

  Denise Crosby
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  • Family
  • Perfect

• Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

  

  Elizabeth McGovern
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