Elizabeth Hoyt Quotes
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
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I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
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The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.
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And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
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Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.
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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.
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I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.
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Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.
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But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.
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Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for you so that you may know this secret without the pain of discovering it: We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else. Our salvation depends on a simple gesture that is nonetheless the most difficult act we can perform: We must give away the thing we most long for. Not to receive but to give.
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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
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People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.
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Weep for me. Bear my pain. Take my come. For I can give you nothing else.
