Brooke Elliott Quotes
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.
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When women told me they'd always wished they had a sister, they were thinking of this ideal of mutual encouragement and support. Many of those who have sisters also yearn for this ideal because their relationships with their sisters don't always live up to it.
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I'm very lucky to have a strong support system with my friends and my family. They have kept me grounded.
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I support anyone finding their worth despite being told they can't do something.
