Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
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I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
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Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
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I love honest men, and a I love a man who is loyal to women.
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
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We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.
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I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.
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'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.
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Sequels are desperate.
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John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
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All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.
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You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.
