Elizabeth Meriwether Quotes
I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
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At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere.
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I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.
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But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.
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I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.
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To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.
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I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
