Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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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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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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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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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over.
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Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.
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The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.
