Eliza Griswold Quotes
Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I don't need adult supervision.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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'Entrepreneur' is a French word.
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People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
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Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.
