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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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
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The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.
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It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.
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I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.
