Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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I was born a singer. I need to do that.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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I guess the point of that song 'Troublemaker, Doppelganger' is trying to navigate the worth of beauty and if it's hurtful or helpful to value beauty. If it's a curse or a blessing. Is that something really negative and morbid, like the hearse, or is it the limousine - a glamorous symbol of enjoying life?
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The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
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Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.
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I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.
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People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
