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.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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• Friend
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• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

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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've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  

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• I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

  

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• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  

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• There are problems in doing television that have been plaguing me for years. I really like to have a lot of time, to rehearse and make things as good as they can be, but television often doesn't allow for that.

  

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• I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.

  

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• Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it's OK, that you're not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that there is hope. The capacity for online interactions to do that is powerful.

  

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• The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in.

  

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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.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Friend