Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
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The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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I don't fear anything now.
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Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
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We should have more invention.
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The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.
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I just follow the things I'm interested in. That's always guided me. If I'm interested in something, that's where I go.
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I've heard the government say many nice things. But it did make some gestures, like writing human rights protection into the constitution - that surprised me. And it improved the conditions for foreign journalists: It used to be impossible for you to meet with me personally. But there still hasn't been a real improvement in the human rights situation.
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Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.
