Elizabeth Hay Quotes
Where do they come from, these things that say more than we know and more than we intend?
Quotes to Explore
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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I observe myself and I come to know others.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
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I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.
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Where do they come from, these things that say more than we know and more than we intend?
