Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
Her time with him had very quickly started to feel unreal so that she could hardly believe her own memory of it.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
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We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
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No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
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We made too many wrong mistakes.
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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
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I'd get to a point with my colleagues when I couldn't explain any further, because it came down to 'To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.'.
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There is one sound way a man can bind a woman to him, the same way she will bind him, and with the same rope.
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With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.
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James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
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I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice.
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If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in March.
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Her time with him had very quickly started to feel unreal so that she could hardly believe her own memory of it.
