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People ask if I'm concerned about getting pigeonholed. No one asks, 'Ellen, you've done seven straight roles in a row. Shouldn't you shake it up, do something queer?' There's still that double standard.

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• You must prune dead or dying wood.

  

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• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

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• The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

  

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• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  

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• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

  

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• You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

  

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• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

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• I find the business world hard.

  

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• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

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• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

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• I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

  

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• When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

  

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• People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

  

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• People ask if I'm concerned about getting pigeonholed. No one asks, 'Ellen, you've done seven straight roles in a row. Shouldn't you shake it up, do something queer?' There's still that double standard.

  

  Elliot Page
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