Elizabeth Mitchell Quotes
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.
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The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
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At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
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I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?
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I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.
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We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
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Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures.
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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.
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Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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'Then he was wrong to have been born at all. Cheek- eek-eek-eek, oo, hoo!' chuckled Rinkitink, his fat body shaking with merriment. 'But it's hard to prevent oneself from being born; there's no chance for protest, eh, Bilbil?'
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I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.
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A person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.
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While the angels, all pallid and wan,Uprising, unveiling, affirmThat the play is the tragedy, 'Man',And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.
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I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.
