Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Quotes
No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons - all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!
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At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
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I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.
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I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like.
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When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.
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I think you have to challenge yourself constantly. Otherwise, it's boring.
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Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.
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We can create opportunities to generate value by working across the entire breadth of Boeing.
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There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.
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I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
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I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like.
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It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.
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I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.
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Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy’s bower. Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can rend the shrine In which its vermeil splendours shine.
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No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons - all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows.
