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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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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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.
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When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things through someone else's eyes.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'
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I'm not a pretty-boy kind of a girl; the Brad Pitts don't do anything for me.
