Elizabeth Esty Quotes
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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Europe can be saved.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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You want to be a millionaire. But your values system says you believe in sleep more than grinding!
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.
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John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.
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Government ought to make it easy for people to do the right thing.
