Abby Elliott Quotes
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
A. S. Byatt -
In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
Iain Banks -
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.
Nancy Werlin -
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.
Wendell Berry -
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.
Dan Stevens -
I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
Tamsin Greig
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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.
Maisie Williams -
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
Danai Gurira -
The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
Daniel Boulud -
I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
Dak Prescott -
I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
Gary Ross -
The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
Adam Davidson
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
Zoe Wanamaker -
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.
Ingmar Bergman -
I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
Gavin Newsom -
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.
Fiona Apple -
I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
Edith Widder -
I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
Octavia Spencer
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
Cameron Mackintosh -
My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
Karin Slaughter -
Focus on fire attack, don't do unnecessary things.
Oda Nobunaga -
What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?
Olga Kurylenko -
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
Patrick Leahy -
I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
Abby Elliott