Elaine Stritch Quotes
You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.
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I love doing voiceover work.
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I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.
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What would that be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality.
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The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.
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When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
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I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.
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The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.
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Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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To make the people happy, to forget their problems. Then, to me, I'm doing my job. But to act is a God gift.
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
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You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.
