Elizabeth Lowell Quotes
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.
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Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
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I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.
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I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.
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I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.
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As soon as I discovered weightlifting, all I wanted to do - my plan in life - was to work out, lay on the beach, and get high... smoke dope. And that's really what I'm doing.
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let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love
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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
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I studied because I wanted to know, not because I wanted the world to know I knew.
