Elizabeth Aston Quotes
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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I have my career and my family, and that's it.
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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
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I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.
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The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.
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Have you seen the bologna that has the olives in it? Who's that for? 'I like my bologna like a martini. With an olive.' 'I'll have the bologna sandwich - dirty.'
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The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
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Love has no place in a lawyer's office.
