Eliot Sumner Quotes
Being Sting's daughter hasn't kicked any doors open for me - he has had absolutely nothing to do with my career. It's all been down to me so far, and that's how I want to keep it.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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Make health care a right, not a privilege.
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I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'
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A script is only as good as the director who's making it.
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I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.
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At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.
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The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.
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Being Sting's daughter hasn't kicked any doors open for me - he has had absolutely nothing to do with my career. It's all been down to me so far, and that's how I want to keep it.
