Elise Valmorbida Quotes
I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
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We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.
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You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
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Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.
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I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.
