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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For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.
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A further step is to observe the interplay between your thoughts and your physical sensations. How are particular thoughts registered in your body? (Do thoughts like “My father loves me” or “my girlfriend dumped me” produce different sensations?) Becoming aware of how your body organizes particular emotions or memories opens up the possibility of releasing sensations and impulses you once blocked in order to survive.
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I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.
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I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.
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For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.
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Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
