Elizabeth Neel Quotes
I see my work as having a relationship to the visual world, not just some emotive residue of my feelings. It relates to something that exists, or might exist, rather than a transcendent mental state or something like that.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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I hate having my picture taken.
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If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.
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I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.
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Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.
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The Mexicans are not going to build the wall... they're not going to do it.
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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
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It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
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It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.
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Upon graduation, I hit a wall. All of my good friends from UCLA were taking on jobs they were passionate about, and I felt left behind. It took a bit of soul searching, but in the end, I finally had the guts to pursue acting.
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No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.
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You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.
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I'm not comfortable around guns.
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I started singing because I come from Wales.
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My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.
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Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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My 20s were all about feeling desperate. Desperate to find a new boyfriend. Desperate to get the perfect job. Desperate to get rid of this terrible relationship with this bad new boyfriend.
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I see my work as having a relationship to the visual world, not just some emotive residue of my feelings. It relates to something that exists, or might exist, rather than a transcendent mental state or something like that.
