Elizabeth Cunningham Quotes
Today was Mardi Gras, Marvin remembered. The Episcopals called it Shrove Tuesday, Maria had explained to him, because they were supposed to shrive themselves of their sins, which, loosely translated, meant something like: no more jive, time to shrive, almost Lent, time to repent.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
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Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.
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There are a lot more shots coming at the net and guys are just shooting it at the net because they have more time and pucks are going in off legs and feet and shoulders and heads, so you might have to play out a little further on the shot and hope it hits you.
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I don't like it when people say, 'You're 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.' For me, dressing is about attitude, not age.
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If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.
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Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, "If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay?"
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Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.
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Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.
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There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic? Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.
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Disease may also be thought of as the negation of the normal.
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Today was Mardi Gras, Marvin remembered. The Episcopals called it Shrove Tuesday, Maria had explained to him, because they were supposed to shrive themselves of their sins, which, loosely translated, meant something like: no more jive, time to shrive, almost Lent, time to repent.
