Isabelle Eberhardt (Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt) Quotes
To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
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You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
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Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.
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I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.
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I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
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I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
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Between the desireAnd the spasmBetween the potencyAnd the existenceBetween the essenceAnd the descentFalls the Shadow .
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I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
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Auden is able to set up a We (whom he identifies himself with-rejection loves company) in opposition to the enemy They...
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Frustration is not a work plan.
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Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it...
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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
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I'm just an actor.
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To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.
