Elliot Page Quotes
I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.
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I understood the importance of doing an Aaron Sorkin film. He's a political filmmaker.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
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I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.
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I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
