Abby Elliott Quotes

I want to make people laugh.

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• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Hero
  • Force
  • Used

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Mistakes

• Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • School
  • Character
  • You

• I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Easy

• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Difficult
  • Adolescence

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Discrimination

• For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Different
  • Start
  • Gender

• The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Death
  • Body
  • Spirit

• This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Hair
  • Rip
  • T-shirt

• I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I've never played a character that would sing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Character
  • Never
  • Sing

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Live
  • Stage
  • Build

• Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Men
  • Man

• I want to make good, fun films, not necessarily experimental ones.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Good
  • Fun

• I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Sports
  • Grateful
  • Hockey

• When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Important
  • School
  • Law

• If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Real

• I want to make people laugh.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • People
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