Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed, such that it is not daily at all.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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What musicals need is a new me.
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I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.
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I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.'
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I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed, such that it is not daily at all.
