Elizabeth McGovern Quotes

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

Elizabeth McGovern

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• I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Me
  • Simple
  • Clothes

• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Love
  • Past
  • Road

• You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • You
  • Most

• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Quality

• Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Remember
  • Risk
  • Flying

• I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Strong
  • Amazing
  • Goal

• I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

  

  O. R. Melling
  • True
  • Early
  • Canada

• For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Love
  • Truth
  • War

• 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Friend
  • Loved
  • Chaos

• You don't work with Cloris Leachman, you experience her.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Experience
  • You

• Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Personality
  • Humility

• If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Oh, god, where's the fuckin' bottle, you fuckin' whore?! DID HE FUCK YOU WITH THIS TOO?! Yes- OH, SHUT UP!!! HE DID EVERYTHING TO YOU, OH, GOD!!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • God

• Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; ... I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. ... Blepyrus: But who will till the soil? Praxagora: The slaves. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Money

• There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Kiss

• Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Time
  • Why
  • Forever

• Like a horrible nightmare, the abrogation of equal rights weighs upon us all, but especially upon those Jews who, like me, had surrendered themselves to the dream of assimilation.

  

  Max Liebermann
  • Dream

• I always figured there would be a kid audience and an adult audience, and there is. That's true for 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter.' And 'Maximum Ride,' for sure. In particular what happens is a lot of parents share the books with their kids, and the mom has read it, and the kids, and they talk about it.

  

  James Patterson
  • Kids
  • True
  • Parents

• Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

  

  Ann Rule
  • Judge
  • Shoes

• In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Work
  • Important
  • Colleagues

• Baseball is a game-I just go out there and enjoy it.

  

  CC Sabathia
  • Enjoy
  • Baseball
  • Games

• North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

  

  Elizabeth McGovern