Elizabeth Bisland Quotes
No ruler is ever really dethroned by his subjects. No hand but his own ever takes the crown from his head. ... When he ceases to lead ... the revolt which casts him from power is only the outward manifestation of his previous abdication.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
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What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
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I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
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A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.
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There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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No ruler is ever really dethroned by his subjects. No hand but his own ever takes the crown from his head. ... When he ceases to lead ... the revolt which casts him from power is only the outward manifestation of his previous abdication.
