Ellen Gilchrist Quotes
My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I am a Zionist.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.
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If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
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My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.
