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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If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
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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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I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.
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People get to a certain age and success that they stop being curious. I'm still curious because I haven't really had that success. I've never done a record to catch whatever the latest sound is. It's my love of music, eclectic-ness, and the music that I heard my entire life that seeps in. That's what you're hearing.
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I like to do things that are classic.
