Elliot Page Quotes
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I'm not sorry that it didn't, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do right in your house. You don't have to go anywhere.
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My parents instilled a really good work ethic from when I was little - if you want to have money to spend on holidays, you earn it. So I've always been someone who wanted to be able to survive by myself, but I think you have to let down the barriers a little bit - let other people in.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
