Elizabeth Perkins Quotes
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.
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I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things...have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.
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In March 2010, I attended an art opening for Kimberly Brooks's show 'The Stylist Project' in Los Angeles. It was a starry celebration hosted by Dior and 'Vanity Fair' to benefit P.S. Arts. But even as fun-to-gape-at actresses like Christina Hendricks arrived, I couldn't take my eyes off the oil portraits.
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My refrigerator is powerful. In fact, it has a direct link to my overall well-being.
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I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.
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I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.
