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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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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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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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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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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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.
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Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
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Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
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It seemed awful that the only things she knew about him were those that made him miserable.
