Elle Macpherson (Eleanor Nancy Gow) Quotes
As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.
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As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.
