Mary Elizabeth Winstead Quotes
I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.
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To be is to do.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
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I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.
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I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.
