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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As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.
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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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And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.
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Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.
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I've never been a good hitter.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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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.
