Elliot Page Quotes
I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
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Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.
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A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like.' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.
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My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in education and infrastructure while encouraging business growth.
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What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
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If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
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I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.
