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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I would love to be a role model.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
-
I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
-
Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
-
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
-
I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
-
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!'
-
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
-
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.
-
Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
-
When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.
-
I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
-
Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
-
The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting, added much to the new culture of individualism. (p. 233)
-
If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
-
My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
-
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.
