Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully.
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
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I never fall in love.
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
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I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.
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There's more money on the left in media than there is on the right.
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I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
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Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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I use Aveeno cleansers and moisturizers.
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And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.
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I hate watching myself because when I watch anything I've ever done, I realize all the ways I could have done it better.
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What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.
