Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
Quotes to Explore
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Time was God's first creation.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.
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I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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Working is a great distraction technique.
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The road to success can take a detour. I tell people that I don't care if they came from Yale or jail, it's what you do from today that counts.
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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
