Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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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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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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There is no truly global justice.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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I know what women expect, and give it to them without disagreeable argument; they'll get it anyway.
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When I'm writing I don't feel any pressure. It's after I'm done that I start freaking out. But really, when I'm in Lebanon, I don't write much because I'm surrounded by family. I feel immersed, or enmeshed, in too many currents. I love that, but it's not conducive to writing. In San Francisco, nothing interferes with me but my cats.
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Of the countless ways to feel old in your 40s, perhaps none is quite as perplexing as seeing a young person trendily decked out in 1980s-style garb and saying to yourself, 'I can't believe that look is back in style. It was bad enough the first time around!'
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I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
