Ben Elliot Quotes
A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.
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I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and parents having the courage to share their experience.
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I don't really prepare for each role the same way.
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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
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A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.