Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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'Trading Places' did more for my career than anything I'd ever done. It was a zonking great hit, and it was also just a joy to do.
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If you want to take what I've learned and use it to your advantage, just listen and you won't have to go through it.
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If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.
