Elaine S. Dalton Quotes
The world would have you believe that you are not significant, out of touch, and out of style. But remember who you are-a child of God! You must have the courage to stand out and let your light shine like a beacon for all to see.
Quotes to Explore
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
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No one's ready for a thing, until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.
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I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.
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Fashion is what you buy, style is what you do with it.
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A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.
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The world would have you believe that you are not significant, out of touch, and out of style. But remember who you are-a child of God! You must have the courage to stand out and let your light shine like a beacon for all to see.
