Elizabeth Wilson Quotes
In the 1940s, I was doing something called the Equity Library Theater in New York, when a movie company came to see the play I was in and offered me a contract. But the deal was, my nose was too big and they wanted me to have surgery. My jaw was crooked, and I'd have to have that fixed, too. And they didn't like my name; it was too common.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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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 took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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As I'm getting older, I work out what I want and what I need. And I just need to go home and see the people I love and write.
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As a little girl, I didn't dream of being a ballet dancer; I dreamt of being a movie star like Ginger Rogers and dancing with Fred Astaire. I used to watch the Sunday double-bills on TV and Iong to be part of what seemed a perfect Disneyland world. Astaire was a genius.
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In the 1940s, I was doing something called the Equity Library Theater in New York, when a movie company came to see the play I was in and offered me a contract. But the deal was, my nose was too big and they wanted me to have surgery. My jaw was crooked, and I'd have to have that fixed, too. And they didn't like my name; it was too common.
