Marianne Elliott Quotes

Directors have this mask of being in control and in charge, but underneath, I'm terrified.

Marianne Elliott

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• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Food
  • Control

• I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Control
  • Best

• If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Control
  • Always
  • Mistake

• I hate exercising self-control.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Hate
  • Control
  • Self-Control

• When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Important
  • Power
  • Control

• Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Community

• Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Sometimes

• If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Going
  • Worship
  • Places

• What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Law
  • Control
  • Victory

• I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Control
  • Fate

• Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Control
  • Lost

• When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Friends

• When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Control
  • Single
  • Best

• If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • You
  • Control
  • Tax

• Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Control
  • Alone
  • Poverty

• I hate to lose. Sometimes, I let my emotions get out of control.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Hate
  • Control
  • Emotions

• Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Job

• Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

  

  SZA
  • Real
  • Control
  • Powerful

• One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • People
  • Thought
  • Walk

• The erotic element is life, but doesn't have to absorb you, it doesn't have to be a naughty word. It's the love of life in many ways.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Life
  • Naughty

• Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Challenges
  • Hours
  • Seven

• Directors have this mask of being in control and in charge, but underneath, I'm terrified.

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • Control