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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On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.
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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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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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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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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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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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And although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.
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Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently.
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I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.
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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.
