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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In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.
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The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.
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I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.
