Eleanor Robson Belmont Quotes
An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Every economic decision has a moral consequence.
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From 'Chappelle's Show' to 'Tosh.0,' there's so much race comedy. It's overdone.
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I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.
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In Russia, Vladimir Putin is viewed as a progressive Democrat.
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An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.
