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.
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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 go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,' This is my jam!' It still feels fresh to them.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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This country was founded on a promise of equal rights for all, and we have always managed to move closer to that promise, little by little, one day at a time. It may not be easy - but we'll get there together.
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When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.
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It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.
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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.
