Ellen Key Quotes
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
Quotes to Explore
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I would like to direct.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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There have been times where I have been playing a 16-year-old, and people have been like, 'She still looks 12.' I'm like, 'I'm 22. What do you mean I don't look 16?' So I'm comfortable just rocking my young body.
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Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
