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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Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.
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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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I was at the mercy of somebody else to just give me a job in the years after 'Boy Meets World' ended, whereas if I had gone to college and had when a Plan B, and it was something else that I loved, I could've walked away at any point.
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Some of my fondest memories are holidays by the seaside.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.
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I loved the flash of jewels and the luster of satin. In those days women dressed.
