Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
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I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.
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Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.
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I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.
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I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.
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I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.
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If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.
