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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All I wanted to do was create theater for us, for our generation, for the people of this planet. And it's so rare that the art that you are making is reaching a huge mass of people.
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Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.
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Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.
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A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill.
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For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.
