Elizabeth Meriwether Quotes
Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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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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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
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At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.
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Man is in a transition stage; he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys him to the solar month, but the nerves in the so-called cauda-equina - literally horse-tail, at the end of our spinal cord, are still too undeveloped to act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the sun.
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If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.
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One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.
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Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.
