Elisabeth Sladen Quotes
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
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Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
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Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
