Elizabeth Mitchell Quotes
I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters - someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we're all in this together.
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Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!
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Celebrity is everything in this country. And if these guys don't learn how to play the media the way that Barack Obama played the media last election cycle and the way that Donald Trump is playing the election cycle, we're going to probably get a celebrity candidate.
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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
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I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.
