Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Quotes
Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I don't do negative things.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'
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I didn't get to experience proper autumn until I was eighteen and heading off to college on the East Coast!
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We can't disrespect people for having a different opinion.
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Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.
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Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.
