Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes
The women were active, the men passive, and that made Richenza smile as she absorbed wisdom in that moment. Her grandmother had often been told she did not know her place, but truly she did.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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I'm a slow starter.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'
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I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
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My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.
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I ask you to join me in saying that enough is enough with Liberal arrogance and scandals and enough to the vote-buying promises of the Conservatives. There's a better choice, a third option, the NDP
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We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
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I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day.
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It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.
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I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.
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One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
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Whatever your hustle is, go somewhere with it.
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Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.
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The women were active, the men passive, and that made Richenza smile as she absorbed wisdom in that moment. Her grandmother had often been told she did not know her place, but truly she did.
