Elizabeth Diller Quotes
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.
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We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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Be yourself. The world worships the original.
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And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
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As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.
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Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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And to fill all these white pages that are left for me with the same monotonous question: at what hour do the hours end?
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Trust me, madam. Your underwear is in good hands.
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Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price.
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People always think I left, and I was living in the States for a long time... But home has always been Calgary.
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Practised for centuries, repression has so badly succeeded that it has but led us into a blind alley from which we can only issue by carrying torch and hatchet into the institutions of our authoritarian past.
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We like to take impossible things and actually make them happen.
