Eliza Leslie Quotes
Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.
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I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.
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I was the Republican governor of the heavily Democratic state of New Mexico. I focused on good government, and I got it done - just like my running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. The people of New Mexico reelected me by a comfortable margin. Ditto for Weld.
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
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I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.
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We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.
