Ellen Key Quotes
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
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I think I feel automatically at home in Italy.
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I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
