Marie Helvin Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
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Since the beginning of the internet era, it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data you put into it belongs to you.
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I was for Gore. I thought that Gore and the Democrats were pretty clueless as to what Nader and the Greens represented, and they acted like bullies.
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I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.
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There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.
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I'm not a pretty-boy kind of a girl; the Brad Pitts don't do anything for me.
