Elsa Peretti Quotes
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Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
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I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
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No actor wants to play to an empty house.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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Wars are usually really popular with people that aren't gonna be affected by them. 'Cause it's just entertainment, and it's just weird, like, 'Well, we've got to show the world that we're strong.' No we don't. And by the way, that has nothing to do with you. Why are you equating yourself with that... you know what I mean?
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He didn't have a worry in the world back then. He was in paradise and didn't know it.
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There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
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When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.
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In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.
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I like to do things that are classic.
