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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Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.
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My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.
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I always Google myself. It's horrible.
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But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.
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If you think about 'The Pill' by Loretta, that was totally blacklisted back then. But she revolutionized and liberated a generation of women - country listeners and beyond - that were sort of in that box and were able to break out of it.
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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.
