Mary Elizabeth Winstead Quotes
I can remember when 'Pulp Fiction' came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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I like to be against the odds.
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Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.
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Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.
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I can remember when 'Pulp Fiction' came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.
