Elizabeth Kostova Quotes
I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
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I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.
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Apparently, I have such a serious race face, even when I'm doing a bit of work, at first everybody wasn't sure if I was enjoying it or not. But it's absolutely exhilarating. It feels like you're one with your horse and you're flying.
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Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.
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Tempus edax rerum.
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Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.
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I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.
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There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.
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You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.
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I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.
