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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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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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.
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The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done on their behalf, what is being done is not properly ambitious. If it is comprehensible to its intended beneficiaries, it is the work of insufficiently advanced thinkers.
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When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.
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Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
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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.
