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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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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A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.
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Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
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One of the few comforts I have when looking at images of distant suffering is the hope that the starving child with flies on his face doesn't know how pathetic he is. If all he knows is misery, maybe his suffering isn't as bad.
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Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!
