"I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Elizabeth McGovern

#Opportunity Quotes #Film Quotes #Turned Down Quotes

“I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.”
“By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.”
“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”
“If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.”

Source : The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)
“I realized that every moment in all our lives - past, present, future, known, unknown, and unknowable - exist simultaneously, as though outside of what we know as time. I became aware that I already was everything I was trying to attain, and I believe that's true for everyone. All things that we perceive as positive, negative, good, or bad, are simply parts of the perfect, balanced Whole.”
“Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.”
“Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.”
“I'm a fan of balance and order, but I like to put that extra layer on top. It makes it more dynamic.”

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