Paloma Elsesser Quotes
I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I loved being in a band.
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I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you.
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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
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Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.
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Some people feel pressure; some people don't.
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For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.
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I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.
