Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
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There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
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I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
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I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day.
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.
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Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.
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Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.
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Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.
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Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
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But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
