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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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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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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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.
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Who said last, 'A cleaner New York-school is Up To You?'
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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The once-seen does not exist yet. The always seen no longer exists.
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I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy.
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If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
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I'm very impatient, and if I get a new piece of technology, no matter what it is - I recently got the iPhone, which is very exciting - I can't be doing with reading manuals. I want it to work immediately and to do what I want it to do.
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I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot of appeal to that. It's nice to think of it as this playful kind of thing. But I think that another way to look at it is "Look, I just want to be sincere. I want to write something and make you feel something and maybe you will go out and do something." And it seems that the world is in such bad shape now that we don't have time to do nothing but language games. That's how it seems to me.
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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.
