Abby Elliott Quotes
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.
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We are trying to end poverty in the world by 2030 and we’re going to focus especially on the well-being of the bottom 40 per cent of every country.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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The transmission of knowledge from generation to generation is one of the miracles of civilization.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
