Elisha Cuthbert Quotes
When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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From baby time to now, I wanted to be a Disney princess, and then I wanted to be a singer or an actress.
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Sometimes I bite off a fingernail to use as a toothpick. Nasty.
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The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.
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I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.
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When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
