Elizabeth Haydon Quotes
...as dark as the night gets without a moon, it is really not true darkness. It's just waiting for light to return.
Quotes to Explore
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
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Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Clarice: getting cold feet There's still time!Toni: We can just call everyone and say we're terribly sorry but something came up and we have to leave town!Clarice: ...But what about the five gallons of baba ganoush, and all those tofu pups?Toni: Shit. I forgot. Well, I guess we'll just have to go through with it, then.
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Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestasinpatiens consortis erit.
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That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results.
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You have to learn to not hate who you have to live with.
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[I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.
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I didn't marry. I didn't have children. I followed the food supply for jobs. I kept writing at night. And that kept me moving. It kept my life disruptive. It broke up many relationships. Was it worth it? Yes.
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Every night is a time for drink.
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...as dark as the night gets without a moon, it is really not true darkness. It's just waiting for light to return.
