Marianne Elliott Quotes

Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.

Marianne Elliott

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• As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Fun
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• 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.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • College

• Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Political
  • Action
  • Place

• 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.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • War
  • Morning
  • Fire

• Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Mean
  • Fighting
  • Meaning

• I loved being in a band.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Band
  • Being
  • Loved

• Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Powerful
  • Advice
  • Example

• It's good to be intuitive.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Good
  • Intuitive

• 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.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Sex

• Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Imagination
  • Intelligence

• Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • Fairy
  • Fairytale

• 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.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • May
  • Character
  • Think

• Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

  

  Jay Parini
  • World
  • Poverty

• 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.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Brave

• I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Believe
  • American

• I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Up
  • Different
  • Home

• The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move.

  

  King Hu

• After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980.

  

  Chesley Sullenberger
  • School
  • High
  • Air

• A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Subjects
  • Fundamentals
  • Kingdoms

• To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one's desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Christian
  • Gay
  • Bible

• I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way, which is as human, petty, bumbling.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Think

• When I came to New York, it was cheap!

  

  Carl Andre
  • New York
  • Cheap

• Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.

  

  Marianne Elliott