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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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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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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As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.
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The reason I fell in love with Buffy was because of the ambiguity, because she was a superhero and a hot mess. I hadn't seen anything like her on TV - ever.
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The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
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The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.
