Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
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My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
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Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
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You seem to forget that I'm Evie's legal guardian." "And you seem to forget that there's absolutely nothing legal about your guardianship, considering all the documents were forged.
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So I hear they call you 'The Freak' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'
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I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.
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People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
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The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.
