Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Quotes
When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
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History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.
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..it had been fun to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery..
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The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.
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All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.
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The funny thing about 'The Naked Brothers Band' movie was that we tricked the audience into thinking that we were actually rock stars.
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Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.
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Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
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I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
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My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
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I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.
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Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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Six Sigma has forever changed GE. Everyone-from the Six Sigma zealots emerging from their Black Belt tours, to the engineers, the auditors, and the scientists, to the senior leadership that will take this Company into the new millennium-is a true believer in Six Sigma, the way this Company now works.
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Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!
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Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.
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When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.
