Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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I always remember liking school.
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There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.
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Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.
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'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
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I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!
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Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
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My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.
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Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
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If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person.
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By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
