Marianne Elliott Quotes

Having a child is all-consuming; so is doing a play.

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • College

• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Person

• I didn't even start college until I was 21.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • College
  • Start
  • Even

• I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Life
  • Idea

• I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Woman

• I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Three
  • Five
  • Wives

• Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

  

  Gary Player
  • Game
  • Play
  • Golf

• I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Serious
  • Thought
  • Process

• I am so honored to join the company of a roster as celebrated and diverse as Covergirl's. I can't wait to share some of my own beauty tips with fans and work alongside Covergirl to continue empowering girls and women to celebrate their individuality.

  

  Zendaya
  • Work
  • Women
  • Beauty

• 'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • See
  • Humble

• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Design
  • Without
  • Visual

• Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Movie
  • Best
  • Decision

• Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

  

  Egon Schiele
  • Father

• If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Hate

• The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.

  

  George Seldes
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Media

• Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.

  

  Arthur Capper
  • Responsibility

• Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with the rest of the world and the international law whose primary enemy is now the United States government. I think that it would be very good for democracy, for people to be within some hundreds of miles of their nation's capital, as they are in many other countries, so that they didn't have to travel thousands of miles to protest, to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that is the current state of affairs in this overly large, imperial nation.

  

  David Swanson
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Nation

• Having a child is all-consuming; so is doing a play.

  

  Marianne Elliott