Elizabeth Marvel Quotes
OK, so I'm a working mom that also gets to kiss George Clooney. That's a little bit of a perk of the job.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.
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I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
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The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. … It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.
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Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to 'The Today Show,' and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.
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I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
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OK, so I'm a working mom that also gets to kiss George Clooney. That's a little bit of a perk of the job.
