Ben Elliot Quotes

I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.

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• When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Market
  • Well
  • Manager

• I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Surprise
  • Obsessed
  • Kitty

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Hero
  • Last
  • Every

• I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Work
  • Way
  • Feel

• I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Film
  • Directors
  • Admires

• You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Truth
  • You
  • Woman

• I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Universe

• I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Design
  • I Can
  • Editing

• I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Women
  • American
  • Dream

• Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Great
  • Live
  • Moving

• What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Relationship
  • Say
  • Manager

• Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Fun
  • Actor
  • Accents

• I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Good
  • Love

• I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Always
  • Weird
  • Find

• The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Body

• They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Kiss
  • Tongue
  • Poets

• It's just a personal challenge for him to attack the whole team.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Team
  • Challenge
  • Attact

• Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Story
  • Understood
  • Relate

• I'm concerned with the future. I'm concerned with my life, my present, my friends, people I love, people who love me. I have no intention of taking on a legacy that wasn't bestowed on me.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.

  

  Michael Caine
  • People
  • Film
  • Pool

• I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.

  

  Ben Elliot