Elizabeth Perkins Quotes

It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.

Elizabeth Perkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1960

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Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

John Oliver

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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

Anna Julia Cooper

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Folks, I mean to keep my word. And if I don't, I'll give you my address and some rope. That's real accountability.

Stephen Fincher

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When men get together, they moan about their wives. The commentary provided on marriage between groups of men is typically one from a viewpoint that assumes marriage to be life's greatest, most unfun mistake. Not only is it often as disingenuous as Joe Biden's hairline, but it's incredibly harmful.

Steven Crowder

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I don't know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he's dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He's this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is.

Tom Sizemore

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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Rita Dove

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The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.

Robert Zubrin

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I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to people.

Jorja Smith

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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

Shakti Gawain

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I have always been very good at being able to structure my time. My mother had a huge influence on me. My dad was my coach. He was a hugely influential figure.

Sebastian Coe

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