Eliza Lynn Linton Quotes
Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.
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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?
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The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.
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You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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'Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.'
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If I have a family down the road, I don't know if I could ever raise them in the city because I am a small town girl at heart. I definitely long for the mountains.
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Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.
