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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If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
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On the set of 'Girlboss,' I had to keep introducing myself as the show runner - literally, 'Hi, I'm the boss' - to a lot of my crew. My first AD said, 'Why do you keep doing that?' I said, 'Because I get mistaken for an extra.'
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When I hurt my knee, I knew it was time to retire from dancing, and I needed a job just to pay the bills, and I ended up as a receptionist for about three-four years.
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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.
