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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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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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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In 'Robin Hood,' I did quarterstaff fighting.
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I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.
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My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways - their brilliance was not valued.
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I make it a point to go home every weekend so I can meet with Georgians and hear from them directly.
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One of my key issues is economic empowerment.
