Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Is a man less of a man, because he's learned to hold his tongue?
