Elizabeth McGovern Quotes
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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No man may make another free.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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I come from an improv background, so the one thing I know when I'm doing 'Chozen' is that whatever he's doing at that exact moment is the only thing he's thinking about, and he will do it until he's conquered it.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.
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To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
