Eliot Paulina Sumner Quotes
I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
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I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.
