Ellen Raskin Quotes
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
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I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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I have too many ideas for a lifetime.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
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Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.
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I'm OK: I don't need money.
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Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
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I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
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These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
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You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.
