Paloma Elsesser Quotes
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When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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It takes three to make a child.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I will keep painting until I die.
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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The world wants to like America.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our Nation whole.
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Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
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We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
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I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!
