Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
I've got lots of ambitions, but I only ever think of them when I'm lying around in my undies having a snooze.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
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The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
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I've got lots of ambitions, but I only ever think of them when I'm lying around in my undies having a snooze.
