Elizabeth Meriwether Quotes
People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I am a just man.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.
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I kind of viewed '50/ 50' and 'Warm Bodies' both as my next films after 'The Wackness.' In my head, I was just like, 'I'll try the big, fun, adventure-weird movie, and I'll do the small, heartfelt comedy-drama, and one of them will probably work out, and I'll get to work more.'
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I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.
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Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
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People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.
