Brooke Elliott Quotes
Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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For makeup, a bit of blusher - what you call bronzer - a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.
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After talking to my family and friends and after a lot of thought, I have decided to retire from international rugby with immediate effect
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The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.
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Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.
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Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.
