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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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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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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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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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.
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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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A true athlete is someone who doesn't just stop training when they stop competing. It's a way of life, and they keep in shape just to keep up that standard.
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Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.
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My mother was a politician in my formative years.
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I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.
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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.
