"Sometimes someone that is the villain in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand."

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Source : "Bridging Tv & Theatre: Brooke Elliott & Drop Dead Diva". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. September 25, 2011.

Brooke Elliott

#Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes #Looks Quotes

“The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.”

Source : Beilby Porteus (1823). “Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, late Bishop of London: with his life”, p.13
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”
“It's nice to just do my hobby and be able to live.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.”
“We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that.”
“The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.”
“I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.”
“To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.”

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