Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.
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If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.
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I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
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On oilrigs men who only work an 8-hour day are contemptuously called nine-to-fivers. In stark contrast, women are more likely not to take risks, even when the risks are minimal. What's the message to our sons? Our praise of our sons when they risk physical danger teaches them that a willingness to be physically abused creates love. Abuse-as-love? Yes.
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When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family... Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.
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People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.
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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
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I want to bring more manufacturing jobs to America. For starters, I want to be behind the initative to build a manufacturing facility in Atlanta.
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The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.
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I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.
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Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops, and trade greetings with friendly Biminites.
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None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.
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Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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Fidel Castro is dead!
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Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
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No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.
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The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.
