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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I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.
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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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It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
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When I got fired from coaching, I started coaching high school because my son played. I realized real quick that high school football is in trouble. There's no budget. A lot of kids have got to pay to play, and every year, coaches are getting out of the profession. Kids aren't playing like they used to. It bothers me.
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Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.
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For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you’re depressed.Will you ever feel ok?
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I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?
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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.
