Eliot Paulina Sumner Quotes
I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war—for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
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You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong…
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Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
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I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
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An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
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We are very committed to highlighting women succeeding in entrepreneurship or technology.
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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
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If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday, tomorrow go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!
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When I went to the University of Texas, my first day of freshman year in 1994, I took a student tour, and I asked about the tower shooting. I was told, 'We're really not supposed to talk about that.' That was the official stance from the university.
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My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.
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When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
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I like inviting people over in the evening, because I don't like moving anywhere.
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I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.
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I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the effort to destroy the Nazi regime militarily was justified military action.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.
