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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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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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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I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.
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A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
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I guess laziness is a universal feeling that everyone in this world feels sometimes.
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I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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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.
