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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When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.
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I would buy Barbies and take them apart and then remake their looks. I used them for hairstyling. It was a whole process. I had a lot of dolls - like 150.
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In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.
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My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.
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I am prepared to admit that when it comes to dealing with the House and Senate leaders, Obama is terrible. But he's great with the public. Which hates the House and Senate as much as he does.
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I like to do things that are classic.
