Elliott Masie Quotes
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.
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In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
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I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.
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If you love what you do, you're going to work hard enough at it in order to succeed. If you don't love what you do, you're never going to be able to work hard enough to make it work.
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I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.
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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
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Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista's tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.
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I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.
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We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning.
