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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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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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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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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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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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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I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
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I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.
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If I'm in a hurry, I will have the South Beach Ricotta Muffins. Some mornings, I'll just have turkey bacon and scrambled eggs.
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Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.
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I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.
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I've always been a fighter and always competitive.
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I have always stuck my neck out on policy issues.
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In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.
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The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.
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We're in the last days, man - I truly, in my heart, believe that. It's written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it's about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.
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Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.
