Elizabeth Enright Quotes
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
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Does this country really exist?
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She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.
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Ἐλαφρὸν ὅστις πημάτων ἔξω πόδαἔχει παραινεῖν νουθετεῖν τε τοὺς κακῶςπράσσοντας.
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Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestasinpatiens consortis erit.
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.
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My age has so little to do with my image of myself because at a certain point, the number just didn't fit how I felt. It has become irrelevant to me. I just don't feel like that number is representative of my spirit, of my energy or my anything!
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The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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Men’s pay paid women to love and nurture, to connect and feel. To be nurturer-connectors. In contrast, men received their pay by being some form of killer-protector. By becoming a human doing (a captain or a coal miner), not a human being (a person who feels happy or sad).
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I loved the flash of jewels and the luster of satin. In those days women dressed.
