Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
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The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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Tolle moras: semper nocuit differre paratis.
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Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.
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In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.
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I saturated myself with the improv community.
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Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
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If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it.
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Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.
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Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship.
