Esther Earl Quotes
When loved ones die, people always say, “Don't be sad. I'm sure they would have wanted you to be happy.” I'm sure that's true. But let's be realistic here, people also want to be missed. It is every person's nightmare to leave the world behind as if they had never been there at all.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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I'm very lucky.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
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Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.
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If I have to leave, I don't want to leave without another ring.
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'It's A Wonderful Life' still makes me cry happy tears, and my more recent favorite, 'Elf.'
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I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.
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When loved ones die, people always say, “Don't be sad. I'm sure they would have wanted you to be happy.” I'm sure that's true. But let's be realistic here, people also want to be missed. It is every person's nightmare to leave the world behind as if they had never been there at all.
