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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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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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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I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.
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Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the Dead.
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I think of writing now as a long, tiring, pleasant seduction. The stories that you tell, the words that you use and refine, the characters you try to give life to are merely tools with which you circle around the elusive, unnamed, shapeless thing that belongs to you alone, and which nevertheless is a sort of key to all the doors, the real reason that you spend so much of your life sitting at a table tapping away, filling pages.
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Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra, as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
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Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.
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I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.
