Elizabeth Crook Quotes
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
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To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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I believe the gun has no power at all.
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Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.
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Actually, you can make pretty good cash on stage without being a comedian or a stripper. My brother once won a talent contest by fartin' the song 'Dixie' through an oil funnel. He not only took home 500 bucks, he got to meet Regis after the show. Who says dreams don't come true? (p. 11).
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.
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Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.
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When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.
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I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.
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Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.
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I will never stop making music.
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I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.
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In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
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I love Austin. It's great here. I don't mind the heat.
