Marianne Elliott Quotes
I'm quite unusual in directing terms: I'm a woman. I'm quite a girly girl. I was never academic.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.
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Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.
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I don't think I'm the best-looking actress around. I'm not Katrina Kaif; she is stunningly beautiful. There are some roles that might need a beautiful girl, and there would be a doubt in a director's mind whether he should cast me. But that perception will change with time. I'd like to believe actresses look better with experience.
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I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.
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I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.
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I'm quite unusual in directing terms: I'm a woman. I'm quite a girly girl. I was never academic.
