Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
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The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.
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It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.
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I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.
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My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
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When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'
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I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.
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I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.
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Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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Music was my one way to vent.
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Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.
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The world needs champions. Too many people still find the path to opportunity closed to them. Too many still find unnecessary obstacles to education, to housing, to the full and free exercise of the right to vote.
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And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
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It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.
