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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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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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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What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start to merge with machines in a more robust way, at some point, we'll cease to be identifiably human. And therefore, I think our humanity is, in some ways, the thing that's under existential threat.
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The Federal Reserve - all of them - could be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, and then pouring gasoline on top of it, and then light a cigar with matches, throw the match into the gasoline, and then not notice that there is any danger.
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In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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Mutterings and murmurs, mingling with the rumours of glory, gave rise to fears of an indecisive battle, a precipitate retreat. Insolent voices gave out that a spirit of the lowest category, a guardian angel, the insignificant Arcade, had checked and routed the dazzling host of the three great archangels.
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There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.
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Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship.
