Abby Elliott Quotes
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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.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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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.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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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.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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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.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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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?
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've turned it into a treat. Now, instead of having dessert, I'll have a can of diet soda. Putting a limit on how often I can drink it has helped me appreciate it more.
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People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.
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We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.
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I want to make people laugh.
