Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

Economy was always 'elegant', and money-spending always 'vulgar and ostentatious'; a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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• Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

  

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• You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

  

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• It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.

  

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• I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

  

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• I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

  

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• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

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• When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

  

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• I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

  

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• The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

  

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• I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

  

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• Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

  

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• I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

  

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• I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

  

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• I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

  

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• I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

  

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• The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

  

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• I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.

  

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• It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

  

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• No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.

  

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• You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they? They just get on those shows, and they talk away. There's nothing I can do. And that's one of the great lessons I try to convey in my book, which my mother implanted in me as a young girl.. Is you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

  

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• Economy was always 'elegant', and money-spending always 'vulgar and ostentatious'; a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Money