Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes

They would worry about wearing me out, but I could also see that I was a reminder of all they feared: chance, uncertainty, loss and the sharp edge of mortality.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
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• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
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  • Woman
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• I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Loved
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• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
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• I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Mind
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• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
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• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Think
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• The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Economics
  • Bill Of Rights

• It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • World
  • Important
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• I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Hall

• Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Rich
  • River
  • Pure

• Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Up
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• There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • College
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• Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.

  

  Aneurin Bevan
  • Good
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• Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

  

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• The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

  

  Jacques Derrida
  • Life

• Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Help
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• If I'm being honest, I'm sad even right now because I've been Darth Maul for several years and we've been through a lot together, me and that guy. Saying goodbye was - there was some sorrow but there was a great satisfaction in having that closure. And in a weird way, I think Darth Maul shared my satisfaction with that.

  

  Samuel Witwer
  • Together
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• We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Way
  • Shoes
  • Same

• Somebody's going to get a real opportunity to play for us. There still may be a solid guy there (in free agency now or after the June 1 cuts) that we feel like might come up, but that's something everybody is concerned about.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Real
  • May

• They would worry about wearing me out, but I could also see that I was a reminder of all they feared: chance, uncertainty, loss and the sharp edge of mortality.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Worry
  • Chance
  • Mortality