Elizabeth Neel Quotes
I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
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I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.
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I thought it would be more of a challenge than it was to cater for every size, but as you're aware of a woman's curves - they're kind of like a race track - you can create something glamorous and beautiful.
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'24' is not an anti-government show, really. We've always relied on Jack to fight for the greater good in his own way, and at times, '24' is very patriotic. For me personally, I definitely pay attention to things in a different way.
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Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.
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The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.
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I've never been a social person.
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I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.
