Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
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I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
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Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
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People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.
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I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.
