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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I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on 'Space Invaders,' in the form of quarters, of course.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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I've never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. I'm more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.
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I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line.
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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.
