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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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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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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Art must not serve might.
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Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. His need for fresh air and open space is stronger than any hatred.
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I've always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don't think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.
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The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.
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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
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Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.
