Scilla Elworthy Quotes
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.
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There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.
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I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.
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I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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Lincoln was able to say, you know, "It will make me very unhappy if I lose the presidency, but I'm committed to larger things." If you look at candidates and say this is someone who can be happy to go back to their family or they have larger convictions. Franklin Roosevelt jeopardized his presidency by telling Americans in 1940, "We might have to fight Hitler." He loved being president, but he loved defending freedom more.
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The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.
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Change happens at the level of the individual
