Elizabeth Thornton Quotes
Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain so that you are more objective. You have the power to see things as they are so that you can respond thoughtfully, deliberately, and effectively to everything you experience.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.
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Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.
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Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.
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Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
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I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.
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I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense!
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I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence.
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I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.
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I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.
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Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain so that you are more objective. You have the power to see things as they are so that you can respond thoughtfully, deliberately, and effectively to everything you experience.
