Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
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I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
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I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.
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A man is so in the way in the house.
