Elizabeth McGovern Quotes
England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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A block chain is a series of blocks. Each block is a series of computations done by computers all over the world using serious cryptography in a way that's very hard to undo.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I think for people that are dealing with this out there, the important thing to know is that this is real. It's called CIU, and there are solutions out there for you.
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I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.
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It feels so good to win, you want to do it again and again.
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I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.
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Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
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Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.
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England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.
