Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
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She doesn't get to say much in the official biography - I believe they are out of wine, etc., practical things - watching with one eye as he goes about the world calling himself The Son Of Man.
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Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.
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Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
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It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.
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I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.
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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
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Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
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None whatsoever.
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There you stood on the edge of your featherExpecting to fly.While I laughed, I wondered whetherI could wave goodbyeKnowin' that you'd gone.
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... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.
