Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quotes
If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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I will continue to try and be innovative to keep it fresh for my fans.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places. It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.
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If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.
