Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
Ottessa Moshfegh -
Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
Beatrice Wood -
My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
Aaron Sorkin -
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian -
I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
Larry King -
Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
Dan Stevens
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Samuel Johnson -
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine -
Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
Jack Herer -
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara -
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
Narendra Modi
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
Patrick Duffy -
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Wendell Phillips -
I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
Nathan Fillion -
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
Ed Belfour -
I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
Jack Kemp -
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
Dana Spiotta -
I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
Oscar Isaac -
My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
Nacho Figueras -
I'm a pleaser. That's my character.
Elizabeth Gilbert