Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
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Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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I said these trade deals are going to be terrible: we're going to lose manufacturing jobs, factories abroad; the real wages of Americans are not going to rise. People are coming across the border; it has got to be stopped.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!
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When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.
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The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.
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My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
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My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.
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Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.
