Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
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The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.
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Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
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I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.
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I like to get real pretty.
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When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.
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The knowledge of reality, achieved by means of the complete sensory equipment, must be expressed artistically in terms of a medium which appeals to the memory of all sensory experience - but only through the eye.
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I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
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Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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Honestly, I grew up with Disney.
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I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.
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I loved '24', but I didn't think anyone else would. I had absolutely no idea.
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Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.
