Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've read it three times, and I'm still trying to figure out how she put that magnificent thing together.
Quotes to Explore
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I was born a singer. I need to do that.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!
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Things can be done under the incentive of terror and fear that can not be done when the fear disappears.
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Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.
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Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've read it three times, and I'm still trying to figure out how she put that magnificent thing together.
