Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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I am who I am.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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I don't want to discuss my breasts with the whole world!
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
