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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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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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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To men of other minds my fancy flies,Embosomed in the deep where Holland lies.Methinks her patient sons before me stand,Where the broad ocean leans against the land.
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But from my grave across my brow. Plays no wind of healing now,. And fire and ice within me fight. Beneath the suffocating night.
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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
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Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.
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I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
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I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.
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I give everything far too much thought. If you think you know what you're doing, then you can kind of relax, and then you can improvise and play and just enjoy the day rather than be chasing the lines.
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I used to love getting older.
