Elizabeth Lowell Quotes
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I have lived a carnal life.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
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Things are expensive, very expensive in Israel for many reasons. One of the reasons is our ports. It's a monopoly. They run very poorly. And we have ships that are stuck in the ocean for three or four days or a week, and all that cost is transferred to the products and the consumer.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
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Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
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You should watch what you say to people.
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False as the fowler's artful snare.
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
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It's okay to let yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
