Elisabeth Shue Quotes

People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.

Elisabeth Shue

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LoveTimePeopleComplicatedMovies

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

Jimmy Connors

MeTennisEverythingInvolvedGot

On the red carpet, I'm playing a character. As soon as I get off that thing, I think, 'Oof, wipe that gloss off.' I'm wiping and wiping and pulling my hair out and trying to change my outfit. I'm immediately trying to get comfortable. It's really a part I play.

Jessica Biel

ChangeCharacterRedHairThinkOut

For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated.

Jeffrey Kluger

ChildrenParentsBelieveGeneration

I personally feel like I do look 28 - I never have seen anyone who told me I looked over 35.

Michael Ealy

MeFeelLookNeverOverSeen

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Simon Armitage

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I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else.

Mats Sundin

MyselfPressureMoreThanAnyone

Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.

Logic

StrengthBestFightEvilWorldDone

I love magazines. I always read 'Time,' 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist.' When I get my hair cut, French 'Vogue,' French 'Elle,' 'Paris Match' - I read them all in 10 minutes.

Janine di Giovanni

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I tried to forget about playing Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet' and just think about him as a normal guy, as a normal character, and just try and approach him the same I would every other character.

Douglas Booth

CharacterThinkForgetTryHimSame

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

Chris Jordan

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The Keystone Pipeline would create good-paying jobs. Not only where the pipeline is being built, good-paying construction jobs, but manufacturing and service opportunities in Colorado along with the Keystone Pipeline.

Cory Gardner

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Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

Bob Riley

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