Elliot Knight Quotes
I'd had four auditions for 'Sinbad' when I got the phone call. I was in the Trafford Centre in Manchester, and I screamed very loudly. Then I ran outside, and I screamed some more.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
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You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
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Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
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A lot of people don't know how to talk on the phone anymore.
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
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Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.
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Mystery Men you can take grandma, you can take everyone to see this film.
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Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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I'd had four auditions for 'Sinbad' when I got the phone call. I was in the Trafford Centre in Manchester, and I screamed very loudly. Then I ran outside, and I screamed some more.
