Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.
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I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.
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My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that I came to know the area about as well as anyone.
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Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.
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'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
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I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters.
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Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
