Scilla Elworthy Quotes
There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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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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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.
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I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.
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Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.
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'Oh indeed!' exclaimed the King. Then he turned to his servants and said: 'Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.'
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Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.
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Radio 1 has always championed women; take Annie Nightingale, for example. One of my heroes.
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Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.
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But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
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I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.
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Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
