Ellen Goodman Quotes
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
Quotes to Explore
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I like things simple.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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I have a horror of going down dead ends, which you can easily do with a novel, spending months on it and then realising that it's all wrong. It's demoralising, because you don't get the time back.
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I want people to... not be afraid of their truth.
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
