Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes
Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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I've had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I've been acting for so long. I started out as the girl next door. Now I'm the grandmother next door.
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When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.
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I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
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If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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Art must not serve might.
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The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.
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I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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I've got a lot of little quirks and moments that - my wife, she knows exactly what to say and how to handle me, 'cause I can be hard to handle.
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Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.
