Ellen Gilchrist Quotes
Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to make sure everything's okay. My child is always on my mind.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!
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I'm confident in the fighter I am, and I have nothing to worry about.
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
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I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.
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So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roarBut bind him to his native mountains more.
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Ginger: Get off it, Mo. If I can't ogle, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
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You cannot force the Now. - But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
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It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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Until that moment comes when the ball comes to me every time, I have to find a way to be effective with offensive rebounds, play hard defense, blocking shots.
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If you have a traditional view of economics, you're probably thinking of Ben Bernanke making Fed policy, or the guys creating financial derivatives at Goldman Sachs.
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When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.
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People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.
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It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.
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I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.
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Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.
