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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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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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 capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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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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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they try to question traditional notions of masculinity and the sort of toxic nature of traditional ways of presenting masculinity.
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Government ought to make it easy for people to do the right thing.
