Marianne Elliott Quotes
What I really would like to see is more female stories out there. Particularly older female stories, because women are predominantly ticket-buyers.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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My parents, they were both Socialists; they were young - 30, 31. They were both successful career people. They had been teachers, and my dad spoke English.
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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Women offer unique contributions to making and keeping peace - and that those contributions lead to better outcomes not just for women, but for entire societies.
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Of course, recognising our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.
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What I really would like to see is more female stories out there. Particularly older female stories, because women are predominantly ticket-buyers.
