Elizabeth Graver Quotes
How much he loved being alone except when he didn't, except when it got to be too much?
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.
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I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.
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I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.
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If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.
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When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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How much he loved being alone except when he didn't, except when it got to be too much?
