Elizabeth Tan Quotes
The 'where' doesn't really matter for me. It's whenever I get time to spend with the people that I treasure the most in my life, that's when I am at my happiest. I don't get to see them as much anymore, so the times that we actually get to meet up and just hang out together mean a lot to me.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you're always fundraising.
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Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
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I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.
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A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it.
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The 'where' doesn't really matter for me. It's whenever I get time to spend with the people that I treasure the most in my life, that's when I am at my happiest. I don't get to see them as much anymore, so the times that we actually get to meet up and just hang out together mean a lot to me.
