Elyn Saks Quotes
My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I don't want to be a sexy vampire.
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There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.
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We have little bits of comedy throughout our films but this is like a full-on comedy. I had great time. It was fun to do a comedy and see a lot of the people I worked with on our previous films and meet some new actors. It was a good experience for me.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.
