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Ellen Page Quotes

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: canadian
Birth: February 21, 1987

Topics

Failure Hate Men See Actress How

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.

Book Financial Seeing Citizen Pilot

Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? It's fun to play villains and character roles, of course - but I'm sure it's also fun to be a really big star and play the lead in everything, where all you have to do is show up and not blink.

Character Fun You Play Know Nice

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Music People Think Own Only Who

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Discipline World Management Problem

I just want to make people laugh.

People Laugh Want Make Just

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

Fear Future Looks Worst Existence

Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our lives in ways not always captured or best shaped by the typical template of consumer and seller.

Jonathan Zittrain

Best Step Bold New Always Facebook

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

Better Getting Better Feel Learn

If you're comfortable with who you are, it shows in your walk.

Walk You Comfortable Who Your Shows

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.

Start Play Go Know Say Piano

Traveling, I've met Ghanaian people who have seen me in minor stuff, but they see the name Ato Essandoh, and they recognize it as a Ghanaian name. They come up to me and are always so excited. You don't think about it, but they really absorb American culture.

Culture People Me Think Name You

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Winston Churchill

Time Party Closing Leave Before

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