Elizabeth Enright Quotes
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
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When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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It is always your next move.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.
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It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.
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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
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Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.
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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
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No matter how old a person gets, he's never old in spring!
