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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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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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'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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People from different backgrounds approach a subject in different ways and ask different questions.
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I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.
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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
