Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.
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I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.
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But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Anna would say that she was a cat like Gemma, with nine lives to spend, all nine precious and delicious.
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When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.
