Ellen Key Quotes
It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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I feel joy when I do a great show. I get fun out of making other people happy. I'm a terminal people-pleaser. I suppose that's why I'm a frontman.
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When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.
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As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.
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Japanese things - laquers, netsuke, prints - conjure a picture of a place where sensations are always new, where art pours out of daily life, where everything exists in a dream of endless beautiful flow.
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There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.
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It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws.
