Marianne Elliott Quotes
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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.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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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.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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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.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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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.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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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.
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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.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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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.
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I can have an androgynous quality.
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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.
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I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.
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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.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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I always want more.
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When African-Americans come to France, the French show them more consideration than they would show an African or a Black Caribbean. When African-Americans come to France, the French people are like, 'Oh, wow. Oh my God.' But if it's an African, they're like, 'Whatever.' It's all because of the past, because of our history.
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You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.
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I used to love getting older.
