E. Lockhart Quotes
Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
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The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.
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Everything I do has a moral to it.
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When I first went to Kmart, I was so excited that I could bring my kind of taste to the masses. They didn't have 100 percent cotton sheets at mass market in 1987. We made those in yellow and pink and pale blue.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious
