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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Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
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Sometimes those who care for the whole community must act in a way that harms the individual. For a good man it never becomes easy and he avoids it when he can; but when people need him to be harsh, he will be harsh indeed, and he won't shrink from it, he'll do it with his own hand and let it be known what he does.
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If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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I loved the flash of jewels and the luster of satin. In those days women dressed.
