Elizabeth McGovern Quotes

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

Elizabeth McGovern

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• I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Important
  • Home
  • Worry

• I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Internet
  • Afraid
  • Computers

• I keep in touch with what's real.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Real
  • Keep
  • Touch

• When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Night

• I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Music
  • Collaboration

• With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • People
  • Think
  • Sad

• I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Science
  • Process
  • Discovery

• I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Family

• I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Myself
  • Holiday
  • Thanksgiving

• My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Reading
  • Day
  • Summer

• If the Numerai fund performs well, that should lead to more assets under management, which should lead to more revenue for Numerai's general partner, which should lead to higher payouts for the data scientists, which implies a higher Numeraire valuation.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Management
  • Partner
  • Data

• I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.

  

  Valerie June
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Simple

• Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I enjoyed L.A. because it was nice to be in the sunshine and live in a house with proper wardrobes. I loved the space.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Live
  • House
  • Nice

• The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Age
  • Night
  • Man

• I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Party
  • Rome

• When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Sometimes
  • Face
  • Sleeping

• If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Come
  • Figure
  • Publicity

• But, O sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto’s cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek.

  

  John Milton
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Sad

• We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Drama

• I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

  

  Elizabeth McGovern