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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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'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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I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.
