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 can imagine my dismay when I got to Cambridge and found that I had done everything wrong. I shouldn't have named the chimps; I should have given them numbers. I couldn't talk about their personalities, their minds or their feelings because that was unique to us.
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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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When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.
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I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave.
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The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.
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I mean that a party can’t be anything other than a distributor of favors in exchange for support, ideals are part of the furniture.
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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.
