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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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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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 found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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I love daal chawal. I am not a restaurant person. I enjoy home food a lot.
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If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.
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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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An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.
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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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In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other.
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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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In my twenties I tried cocaine, which I instantly loved but eventually hated. Cocaine is terrific if you want to hang out with people you don't know very well and play Ping-Pong all night. It's bad for almost everything else.
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The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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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.
