Elizabeth Reaser Quotes
My father raised me from the time I was 12 years old. And it would never occur to me that I wouldn't be strong - I wasn't raised like that.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.
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Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.
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My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.
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The sky is the sky wherever you go.
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My father raised me from the time I was 12 years old. And it would never occur to me that I wouldn't be strong - I wasn't raised like that.
