Elizabeth Meriwether Quotes
I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
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People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
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Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.
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I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.
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I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.
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In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.
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When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.
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I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
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One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.
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I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
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Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.
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Improving the opportunities across the board is extremely important to sustain the legitimacy of wealth. If a whole horde of people, whole sections of society don't feel they have the opportunities, then the focus is going to be on those who have it and who have made it and say that is illegitimate.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.
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I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.
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I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
