Ellen Wittlinger Quotes
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
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Ch. 9 (pp. 298-9)
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So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.
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Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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The U.K. needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.
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There's nothing more dramatic than the comedy I've done. Because the comedy I've done is to get to the audience, get them to feel it, or they won't laugh.
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Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.
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Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
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I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.
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The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.
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I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.
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Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that imposedInfinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loosedFrom breasts heroic, sent them far to that invisible caveThat no light comforts, and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave;To all which Jove's will gave effect; from whom first strife begunBetwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son.
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Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
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I want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver.
