Elizabeth Chandler Quotes
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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
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One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it.
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It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
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I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.
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Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.
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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
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... life is too short to do the whole.
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Honestly, we get our energy from our fans. When we are on stage, whatever they are feeling, we also get the same feeling.
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To switch right into creativity usually takes a bit of time, and this came up right at that juncture where I thought, okay, here's an opportunity to work with somebody I really respect in a new medium.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.
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When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.
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Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.
