Elisabeth Shue Quotes
I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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As I see it, if the production of a factory is expanding, and workers are satisfied, it's OK for there to be a disparity. The best paid should be about three times more than the worst paid.
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If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.
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It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.
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Work is life. Work is opportunity.
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I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.
