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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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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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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The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
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The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
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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.
