Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
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Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.
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My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.
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You are bigger than your self-doubt. Remind yourself of that each and every day.
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I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.
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I think I still want to be a music director as a grown man.
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There are two ways to approach the market. You can guess which direction prices will go in next, or you can figure out what businesses and their securities are really worth.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
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Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
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Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
