Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
Quotes to Explore
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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Excellence always sells.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on set dancing and special effects, and you don't see that solo voice that was the trademark of Adele. It's no accident that it was her album that ended up selling 27 million copies worldwide.
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I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.
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When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.
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The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
