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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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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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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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.
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Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.
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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.
