Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?
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When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre
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Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
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The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.
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I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. . . seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me.
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Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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I think God outdid Himself when He created children.
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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
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The best part about working is that you never know what you're going to learn when you start out.
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A musical is never something I thought I'd do.
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Been tumbled smooth by waves
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I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
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I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
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I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
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She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.
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I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit you could pick and choose how you want to do it and see if you really feel the song, because sometimes you might not even like the song after a few listens.
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Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?
