Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland Quotes
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.
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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
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I learned that as a director, you're around all these talented people, so you have this window that all these really good ideas can come in to help your movie, so you're crazy to close them. You need to be inspiring people, engaging people. There are lots of people who are really good at their jobs but might not know or feel like they want to come up to people and get them to participate and want to do their best.
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I expect people to at least use some thought.
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
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If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.
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The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.
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No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
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The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
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Rehearsal's mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.
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Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.
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Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way.
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I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.
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Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.
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The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.
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Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
