Elizabeth Crook Quotes

My brother was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.

Elizabeth Crook

• Brother
• Television
• Household
• Emotionally

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• I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

  

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• My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.

  

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• I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

  

  Laura Riding
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• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Life
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• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

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• I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

  

  Om Puri
  • Life
  • Old
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• I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • See
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• My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

  

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  • Done
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• I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.

  

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  • People
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• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Man
  • Literature
  • Pen

• It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Business
  • Freedom
  • Me

• The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Life
  • Struggle

• Stout men, not stout walls, make a well-held city.

  

  Andre Norton
  • Men
  • City

• The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.

  

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• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

  

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• Let me tell you, there's very few places where I don't have an agenda.

  

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• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  

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• It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.

  

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• In my opinion, the BBC are one of the best producers of drama in the world, and it made me incredibly happy to get the opportunity to be one of the leading men in one of their productions.

  

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  • Happy

• I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.

  

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  • Photography

• I started karate in middle school when my parents wanted me to babysit my younger brother. He was a little troublemaker, so they wanted me to make sure the class was going okay. I ended up being way more into it than my brother.

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Up
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• My brother was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Brother
  • Television
  • Household