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Elizabeth Wilson Quotes

In the 1940s, I was doing something called the Equity Library Theater in New York, when a movie company came to see the play I was in and offered me a contract. But the deal was, my nose was too big and they wanted me to have surgery. My jaw was crooked, and I'd have to have that fixed, too. And they didn't like my name; it was too common.

Elizabeth Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1921 - May 9, 2015

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New York Me Library Name Doing Play

There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.

Mother Rebel Choice Movies Crime

I'm not going to put myself in a box.

Myself Box Going Put

Memory is more indelible than ink.

Memory Brainy More Ink Than

There is always that need to feel that you're doing your possible best.

Best Feel Doing You Possible Need

You have to imagine a world in which there's this abundance of data, with all of these connected devices generating tons and tons of data. And you're able to reason over the data with new computer science and make your product and service better. What does your business look like then? That's the question every CEO should be asking.

Business Science Service World Data

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Communication Time Ten Years Know

There's no idea or concept in comedy you could do that hasn't been attacked from some angle. But if you start leaving punchlines out so you'll look cool, I don't get that. But I don't watch standup anyway, so I don't know what they're doing.

Cool Start Comedy Doing You Look

I'm a big crier. I never cry when something is painful, but I cry if things are frustrating. Like if I'm trying to do something, and I mess up over and over. If I'm playing a video game, and I can't beat a level that I've tried 10 times, I'll cry. When I was a kid, I think I cried for every practice from 2003 to the middle of 2006.

Practice Game Think Trying Cry Kid

I love the rain and everything about the monsoons!

Love Rain Everything About I Love

The thing with '24' is that because it moves so much, it's a challenge, and sometimes things get revealed about these characters as you go.

Challenge You Go Sometimes Things

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

Think Picture You Too Much Know Way

I certainly miss playing piano, and I really wish I did it more - it's really a very therapeutic thing to do for me. I just need to be home for more than a few minutes to be able to play more, I guess.

Home Me Wish Play More Need

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