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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The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
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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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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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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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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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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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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk this tightrope between charming and creepy, and I always fall on the charming side. I'd like to fall on the creepy side and be like one of those scary old men, like really charming villains.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.
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The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.
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I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.
