Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
Lady Margaret believed in the three D's: Discipline, Desire, and Determination. But as she listened dutifully to her new employer, hiding her yawns and trying to sit up extra straight in her chair, Charity Hill began thinking of all the lovely things that began with S, such as Sleeping Late, Sex, and Shopping.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I love daal chawal. I am not a restaurant person. I enjoy home food a lot.
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.
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I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.
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I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.
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It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel.
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I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.
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I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.
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The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
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It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.
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It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.
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Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.
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Privacy is not a luxury in America: it is a right - one that we need to defend in the digital realm as much as in the physical realm.
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People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.
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Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.
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The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.
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Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.
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It's a democracy, and the reason why the conservative movement loses is because it believes that it is elite, that the smartest in its midst who have gone to the right schools and who have worked at the right think tanks and have the right opinions and the right friends can run it for the rest of America. That's why I'm a Tea Party adherent over a Republican or conservative establishment adherent.
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Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.
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I've never been the sort of person to walk into a room and have *clicks fingers* 50 women want to sleep with me, ok, and suddenly you walk across a stage and you have a video clip and you know girls want to go out with you and think you're beautiful!
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Lady Margaret believed in the three D's: Discipline, Desire, and Determination. But as she listened dutifully to her new employer, hiding her yawns and trying to sit up extra straight in her chair, Charity Hill began thinking of all the lovely things that began with S, such as Sleeping Late, Sex, and Shopping.
