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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes

When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog... whose task was to keep me from drowning.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: September 13, 1931

Topics

Dog Me Young Task Big Keep

There's some evidence that if you're recruiting, you tend to recruit a mini-me. Then you have a very comfortable group round a table. You all think alike. You agree. People are arguing that the banking crisis was because too many of the relevant bodies were thinkalikes, and that if they'd had more diversity, maybe it wouldn't have happened.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Diversity People Think You Table

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

Love Power Nothing Big Playing Trip

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Speak Matter Matters Human Almost

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

John Jay Chapman

Learning Alone Teacher Talent Gift

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

Fear Myself Fire Camera Acting Two

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

Time Down Write I Write Mornings

Cancer is not one disease but many diseases.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer Disease Diseases Many

I prefer to stay out of politics, really.

Politics Out Stay Really Prefer

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Think Activity Like Solitary Tend

To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.

Me Ambition You Say Open See

Remember, in the vast infinity of life, all is perfect, whole, and complete... and so are you.

Life Remember You Perfect Infinity

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

Hate People Proud Think Thought You

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