Elise Stefanik Quotes
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
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Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.
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Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
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'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.
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What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.
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I'd never thought of horror as being so challenging, but it is.
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What I’m saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job.
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The only people are those who don't love anybody.
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Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.
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Watching yourself on film, if you've never watched yourself on film before, you want to go crawl into bed and stay there for a week.
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My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.
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One of my key issues is economic empowerment.
