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 tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.
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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.
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At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years.
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I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.
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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.
