Elliot Page Quotes

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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• A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

  

  Cam Newton
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• You must prune dead or dying wood.

  

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

  

  Natalie Portman
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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.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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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.

  

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

  

  Pat Barker
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• I find the business world hard.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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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.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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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.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
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• I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Experience
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• I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.

  

  J. August Richards
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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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• 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

  

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

  

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• Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

  

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• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  

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  • War
  • Democracy
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• There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

  

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• I grew up in Michigan, in the Detroit area, so cars are sort of in my DNA.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
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• The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!

  

  Maelle Gavet
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  • Should
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• I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.

  

  Susana Martinez
  • Education
  • Fight
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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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