Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
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As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.
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It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.
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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
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I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.
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I throw 14 parties a week.
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I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.
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In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.
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Just as it takes death to awaken us to the full stature of someone loved.
