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 thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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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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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.
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'The Slap' is not like anything else. It's an incredibly well-written novel that has been turned into a great and intriguing series that reveals both less and more about each character than you learn in the book. It's a novel that has been given a second chance to live.
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God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?
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Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
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I don't like speaking on things that I don't care about and that I'm not personally invested in.
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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.