Elizabeth Chandler Quotes
A storm was brewing. The wind has picked up and a mass of purple clouds was coming in from the West. It felt good to have my hair whipping around my head. I thought it might feel good to have hail beat down on me. Sometimes storms outside are the only relief for storms inside.

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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
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Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.
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Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.
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When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
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I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.
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I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.
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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
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A storm was brewing. The wind has picked up and a mass of purple clouds was coming in from the West. It felt good to have my hair whipping around my head. I thought it might feel good to have hail beat down on me. Sometimes storms outside are the only relief for storms inside.