Eliot Paulina Sumner Quotes
I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I don't see myself in the political realm.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
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Me.
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Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. … Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
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Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals
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The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.
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All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
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I take my religion seriously.
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I would train with a gay man. As long as he respected me, it's all right. I don't think much of it. The fact that a guy is gay doesn't mean he's going to accost you. He can be gay, have a relationship, live among guys who aren't gay. He can do whatever he wants with his private life.
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In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.
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Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.
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Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.
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Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
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The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.
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It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day.
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My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say prayers against his will. He was right.
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We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.
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I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.
