Elizabeth Hay Quotes
The phrase that came to her mind was "the long and sudden of I." We go on and on through the long months of our lives until we hit a sudden moment that stuns us.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
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If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
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It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.
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Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang 'Tilly-loo!'Till away they flew,-And they never came back to me!
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To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s.
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Each gig is brilliant and fun. When it becomes a routine, we'll take a break. There's no point in doing it if you don't enjoy it.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
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I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.
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The phrase that came to her mind was "the long and sudden of I." We go on and on through the long months of our lives until we hit a sudden moment that stuns us.
