Elisha Cuthbert Quotes
A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.
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My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.
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While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
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Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
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Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.
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The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.
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I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.
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A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.
