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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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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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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Well it is. It is a religion with me. It's a way of life. A religion is a way of life, isn't it?
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The Abbey always reminds me of that old toast, 'Above lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter, as though the dead were there.'
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I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
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I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
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I met my wife in South Dakota.
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I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
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(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.
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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.
