Marianne Elliott Quotes

I used to love getting older.

Marianne Elliott

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• We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Wife

• It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Things
  • Easy
  • Talk

• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Want

• No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Racism
  • Soccer
  • Nationalism

• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Think
  • Environment

• You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Trying
  • You
  • Thousand

• It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Leadership
  • Army
  • Lion

• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Spiritual
  • Natural
  • Fact

• Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Great
  • Career
  • Childhood

• When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and we know they could leave - we know that because they are free, and their freedom is part of the thrill.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Freedom
  • Person
  • Feel

• There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Loved

• The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Death
  • Respect
  • Ideas

• I can have an androgynous quality.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Quality
  • I Can
  • Androgynous

• The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • American
  • Reality
  • Same

• I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Alone

• I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Period

• It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • You
  • Challenge

• I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Government
  • Audience
  • Sponsor

• If he Thomas Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Search
  • Labor
  • Calculation

• To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagined that you have to think deep down that you want to be Martin Scorsese or you want to be P.T. Anderson. Like, am I as good as those guys? Absolutely not. I feel like I keep learning, and I feel like I keep getting better.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Good
  • School
  • Learning

• I used to love getting older.

  

  Marianne Elliott