Elizabeth Kostova Quotes
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.
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A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
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Quality control which cannot show results is not quality control. Let us engage in QC which makes so much money for the company that we do not know what to do with it.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
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If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
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For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.