Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.
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I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
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People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!
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I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.
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I've done modeling since I was 18, but it didn't take off until I moved to Los Angeles. Modeling has always been something I've been really good at, and has been something that's helped pay bills.
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It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.
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In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.
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Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.
