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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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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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've picked a camera up a few times. I remember buying my first camera when I was about 18 and really going wild with it, as you do as an 18-year-old, especially when you're in college.
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And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.
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I coasted through high school. I was 203rd in a class of 987.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don't have room for you simply just look at the world differently.
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I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.
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Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.
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The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.
