Jane Elliot Quotes
I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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I'm curvy.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.
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The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
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It’s just a shame that it had to be played that way.
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Social media gives one a family to share ones life with.
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I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.
