Ellen Stofan Quotes
I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study.
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.
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Coming from an immigrant background, where a lot of parents don't want their kids to be comedians, success was just showing my mom that I could make a living. I was like, if I can get my mom off my back, that was my success.
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I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
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Is it not quite a modern vice, this habit of draining a canvas at a single glance as some people gulp down a cocktail, and complaining of unintelligibility and complication whenever a work requires study and patience on the part of the spectator?
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I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study.
