Elizabeth Hawes Quotes
Rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'
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It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
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The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.
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You'll never love yourself half as much as I love you and you'll never treat yourself right darling but I want ya too if I let you know Im here for you then maybe you'll love yourself like I love you ohhhhh.
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I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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Rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.
