Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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I did a job. I completed my Matric and my Bachelors. I did a marketing job. I worked as a bus hostess. I did a lot of jobs; I struggled a lot. I got out from there. The first thing I did when I got out of Darul Aman was my Matric. Then I did my Bachelors privately; I kept doing it.
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I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite.
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Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'
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My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
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Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
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I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.
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I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.
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A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
