Elizabeth Chase Allen Quotes
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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A man can die but once.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
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Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!
