Elizabeth George Quotes
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
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The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam, I'm not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programmes, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
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I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write.
