Elisabeth Shue Quotes
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dreamBut of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.
