Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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I don't feel closeted.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.
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How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.
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The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary.
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I don't discriminate against sushi. It's all good in my book.
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I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
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Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.
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I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.
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Amphibians—the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.'
