Marianne Elliott Quotes
I've enjoyed lots of productions, and it's always been down to the actors I've been working with.
Quotes to Explore
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
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It's interesting trying to make something as truthful as possible, but playing someone who is still alive is quite a weird thing.
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I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
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We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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I've enjoyed lots of productions, and it's always been down to the actors I've been working with.
