Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
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You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.
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I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.
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Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.
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For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
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Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
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She had never acquired in-between shades of character, had not had the opportunity. She had been utterly selfish, and was now selfless, because she had never become a whole person, did not like herself, or know herself. Nor had she ever gained sufficient wisdom to be properly horrified at what she meant to do. She couldn’t think that intensely.
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed
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… the dogma that History is just 'one damned thing after another....'
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I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.
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It's about keeping animals in our environment. They can't be on somebody's purse or shoes or something.
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The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.
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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
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Tobias Wolff is a hell of a writer, but you knew that already. His first memoir, 'This Boy's Life,' was a Huck Finn story set in the Eisenhower era - a story so rich and wounding that not even Hollywood could make a bad movie out of it.
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Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.
