Marianne Elliott Quotes
When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
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Houses of worship can be the heart of a community. They can be the cradle of a family. They can be places where our children go to learn, not just faith, but to make friends. They build connections. They are essential to a healthy America. And every community deserves the right to have those houses of worship operate in safety and peace.
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We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people... who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in elected positions are the target.
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There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic authorities to police their communities. The end of Romans 12 is quite clear about the first; the start of Romans 13 is quite clear about the second.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.
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When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.
