Ellen Glasgow Quotes
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow
Quotes to Explore
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
Carl Rogers
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. Lawrence
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
Samuel Barber
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
Samantha Morton
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
Ireland Baldwin
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
Paige VanZant
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
Taya Kyle
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I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.
Iris Apfel
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
Val McDermid
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
Omar Epps
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A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
Gary Neville
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I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
Victoria Clark
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A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.
H. G. Wells
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I went to acting school, and there were twenty other actors in my class who were exceptional. It's hard for anybody to get work. When I was trying to get jobs, I felt a responsibility to be respectful of the opportunities and take challenging things that could be interesting both for me as an actor and for the audience.
Billy Crudup
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Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.
Jamie Foxx
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I just had a epiphany, I need to go to Tiffany's
Nicki Minaj
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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow
