Marianne Elliott Quotes
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As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
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Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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I loved being in a band.
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Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.
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The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.
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It's good to be intuitive.
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I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.
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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
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The last scene in 'Moonlight,' that's one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen on film in my lifetime. You see two men showing such tenderness towards each other. And it's bold; it's deep. It's complex. It's profound.
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For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.
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Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.
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Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.
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I don't take relationships too seriously, but everyone else seems to. And when you get your heart broken, it's like the end of the world. And I look at it as that was one moment in your life, one chapter. That person helped you grow and figure out what kind of person you want to be with in the future.
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I was always a secretary in the early days, before we decided we were brave enough to join Equity and see if this thing has any legs.
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I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
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The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
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If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.
