Elliot Page Quotes
I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.
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A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
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I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
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I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.
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No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub- and sub-sub-networks form a part of it.
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I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
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I seem to be landing a lot of roles with animal interactions, which is amazing.
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I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
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You have to develop a very thick skin.
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
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The demographics of the country are going to change. It's inevitable. The Latino community in America is going to grow. If you stopped all immigration today, just by virtue of birth rates, this is going to be a browner country.
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'There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.'
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In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final. Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.
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Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
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I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
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Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].
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Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
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I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.
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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
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I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.
