Ellen Gilchrist Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
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I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
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I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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Peoples everywhere wish and long for peace and freedom in their simplest and clearest connotations: an end to armed conflict and to the suppression of the inalienable rights of man.
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Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage.
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I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.
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Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.
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I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.
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Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.
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I love New York, but I wish they wouldn't put clothes on their dogs.
