Elena Roger Quotes
I remember one director in Argentina said to me, 'You are not going to have any opportunity to be a leading lady because of your height.' And I didn't care. I don't have a complex.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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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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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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I would love to be a role model.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I see everything as a positive that can only help me.
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I rest my proteins in their liquid when I am done with the heat braise.
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I remember one director in Argentina said to me, 'You are not going to have any opportunity to be a leading lady because of your height.' And I didn't care. I don't have a complex.
