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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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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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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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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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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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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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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.
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You've got to allow yourself the things you enjoy or you'll just be miserable.
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Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
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During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.
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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.
