Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quotes
Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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He had never lost that mingled combination of awe and terror that welled up in him when confronted by the routinely huge distances of space.
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Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers.
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Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.
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We are not generally included in that narrative - people of color - definitely, women of color don't normally fit that narrative that has been built around the whole image and the whole story of the Silicon Valley.
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I knew I wanted the parties in 'The Queen of the Night' to be convincing, beautiful, and also dramatic: situations where significant things happened on a scale that was both grand and intimate. There were several texts that helped me think about how to do this, and one of the most important ones was Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Villette.'
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I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.
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The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting... But the enthusiasm comes from the fact that it's such a natural activity, storytelling.
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There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.
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I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
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Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.
