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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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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There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10,000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It's not so much about the money. Design is a mentality.
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Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.
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Fashion is like a four-legged table: you need a good designer, a very good business manager, a good manufacturer, and a very good distributor. Without all the legs, table collapses.
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Because when I go places and I talk to kids and I talk to parents and I talk to athletes all over, and they look at my story and they see a person, African-American or not, they see something that they can relate to.
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
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As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.
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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.
