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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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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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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Geography is history in place, history is geography in time.
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My mother is one of seven kids, so I have a lot of strong women in my family, and I have supportive, beautiful relationships with all of them.
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People like things that change. They don't like stagnant things.
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God is predictably unpredictable.
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Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.
