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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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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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 have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.
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If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!
