Eliot Sumner Quotes
I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.
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I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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I respect Lady Gaga very much.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
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Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
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I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
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I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
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I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part.
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Everything is possible. Anything is possible at any time and at any time in life. That's such an affirmative kind of feeling.
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Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The little creature lived in a little den, at the bottom of a little ravine, filled with not-at-all little brambles and on the edge of a forest that could only be described as really freakin' huge.
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Adversity creates comedy.
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Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.
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I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.
