Elizabeth Pena Quotes
I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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It's summertime and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high. Your daddy's rich and your mama's good -looking. Hush, little baby don't you cry.
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I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.
