Ellen Gilchrist Quotes
In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I don't really go to clubs anymore. I'm actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I'm not a hell-raiser. But don't burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure, I'm a hell-raiser.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
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An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
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The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
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I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.
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Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.
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The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.
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In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.
