Eloise Mumford Quotes
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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I get homesick.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
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Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. 'In love-ness' is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about 'happy' and 'unhappy' marriages.
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I like 'The Big Lebowski'. The Dude is my man. My brother and I can quote that.
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Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.
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Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
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I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.
