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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They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.
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I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an adaptation of a book called 'The Wave' by Morton Rhue.
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Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.
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I used to love getting older.
