Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a drama degree. I just didn't have the guts to go, 'Yes, I'm going to be an actor,' until I was probably 21.


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JANE ELLIOT
If I had to pick three overall areas: civil rights, access to justice and, I think, privacy.
ELLIOT MINCBERG
I think that for me, growing up, my dad was in the Navy; we went all over the world. I love things t...
GRAHAM ELLIOT
Both, needless to say, are thrilled.
ELLIOT MINTZ
Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON
I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lectu...
ELLIOT PERLMAN
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
JIM ELLIOT
God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but in...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Kosher salt, eggs and flour. These are the building blocks of everything. Kosher salt, above and bey...
GRAHAM ELLIOT
It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
She doesn't wish to have anything to do with this man.
ELLIOT MINTZ
I've known Paris and worked with her, and the kind of person that was described on the stand this af...
ELLIOT MINTZ
If this results in Mr. Quintana having to have a distance between himself and Paris Hilton, she's de...
ELLIOT MINTZ
The overall tone of her being this kind of Menacing being who would send people out to beat people u...
ELLIOT MINTZ
She has gone through her share of public embarrassment. This becomes yet another one of those moment...
ELLIOT MINTZ
The possibility that many people would be reading her journal is really disquieting. She's feeling a...
ELLIOT MINTZ
At the end of the day what seems to be going on here is that Paris is the only victim. She's going t...
ELLIOT MINTZ
It would be in the category of weeks as opposed to months.
ELLIOT MINTZ
I don't see what contribution, if any, she's going to be able to make in that case.
ELLIOT MINTZ
We wish to make it perfectly clear to anyone who elects to purchase or publish any of Paris Hilton's...
ELLIOT MINTZ
I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Str...
GRAHAM ELLIOT
It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believe...
JIM ELLIOT
Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the ...
JIM ELLIOT
God always gives his best to those who leave the choice with him
JIM ELLIOT
I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
JIM ELLIOT
Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usu...
JIM ELLIOT
I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the ...
GRAHAM ELLIOT
We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to who...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and materna...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Chicago's always been known as this meat and potatoes place, and a lot of restaurants play that ...
GRAHAM ELLIOT
I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your ad...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON
This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefor...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Oh Angus,” she moaned. “Can’t you just use your…you know…your powers to clean this up?” ...
ELLIOT MABEUSE
When a wisp of fog blew by her she laughed and reached out her hands to it. When the wind blew she t...
ELLIOT MABEUSE
And as she looked at the pool she saw the waters gather up into a column, rushing up foaming and sta...
ELLIOT MABEUSE
He tried to make it seem that he had stopped for some dirty talk and to savor the moment, but Anne k...
ELLIOT MABEUSE
The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.
BEN ELLIOT
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are alway...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate ...
JIM ELLIOT