Elaine A. Cannon Quotes
Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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I would definitely love to be a parent.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
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I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
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The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.
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Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.
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You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.
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I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
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Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.
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Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that.
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Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love.
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I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
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Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.
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Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.
