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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.
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It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.
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I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.
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Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.
