Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Quotes
Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'
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I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.
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Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you're a heel.
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We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.
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When you have something that you did so many jobs on and were so front and center on, and then people dislike it, you want to learn lessons from it, and you want to move on, and you want to move on too fast.
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When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.
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Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.
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Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
