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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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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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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I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
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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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[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.
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Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.
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Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.
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I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.
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In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress.
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I like to do things that are classic.
