Ellen Glasgow Quotes
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
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I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
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My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
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Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
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I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
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The government's job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.
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Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.
Garry Kasparov
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I really enjoyed shooting in Ireland. The people are so lovely. I hope I don't offend anyone in saying this, but the nature reminded me of Americans: everyone was warm and open and easy to talk to. And Ireland is so beautiful and lusciously green.
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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it.
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The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.
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In my little boxAt the top of the stairWith my Indian rugAnd a pipe to share.
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No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
