Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes
We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.
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Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
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Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
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Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
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I might be one of the very few people in this industry who doesn't have a 'me too' story.
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Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.
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Maybe Liz was right and she'd wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we'd run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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You left the best you had, now you gotta act like that?
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We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.
