Ellen Glasgow Quotes
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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I don't really know what the prerequisites are for Bollywood, but I do believe I can be successful in anything I choose to do.
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The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.
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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
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At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.
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The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
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The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.
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Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.
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Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
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As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
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What attracted me the most of all to the detective story, was the protective covering offered to the author.
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The lazy and the foolish compare him to Hemingway, which is a terrible injustice as Jim is both a better writer and a better man.
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Until space tourism is a destination-based business (e.g. flights to a private space station or to the moon), will flyers pay to fly more than once after having earned their astronaut wings? The answer to this is likely very dependent on the experience itself.
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I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.
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I am always in haste, but never in a hurry.
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Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.
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Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
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I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
