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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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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'The Wine of Summer' is a beautiful film about love lost and found, and the complexities of life while discovering who you are. It was filmed primarily in and around Barcelona, and the imagery is breathtaking.
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My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
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For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.
