Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
It seemed awful that the only things she knew about him were those that made him miserable.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.
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I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
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It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
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The artist who parades his drawing, the writer who wishes to attract praise to his style, resemble the soldier who plumes himself on his unif onn but refuses to go into battle, or the farmer who polishes the ploughshare instead of driving it into the earth.
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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!
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I'll try to record the spiritual quality of the things that strike me.
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Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.
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It seemed awful that the only things she knew about him were those that made him miserable.
