Elizabeth Marvel Quotes
Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach to darkness.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
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There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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I find that the kinds of music I'm drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
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A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.
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'It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest.'
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… ‘I’ve only one hobby, and that is my wife.’
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'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
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The devil ain't got no music. All music is God's music.
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I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.
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The most important thing is to not waste your money.
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I am retiring. I have a mission, and it is coming to an end … France may still one day need an image that is pure. She must be left this image. If Joan of Arc had married, she would no longer have been Joan of Arc.
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I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me, me, me, me, me. I, I, I, I, I. As if I were pushing away my experiences from the experiences of others. Because basically what I was trying to do was show our commonality. I mean to say, in the very ordinariness of what I recount I think perhaps the reader will find resonances with his or her own life.
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Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.
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Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach to darkness.
