Elizabeth Aston Quotes
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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Some are addicted to cigarettes, some, God forbid, to drugs, and some become addicted to money. They say that the worst addiction is to power. I have never felt that. I have never been addicted to anything
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.
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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
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Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.
