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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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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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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I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
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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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Casting is very, very important.
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Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
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I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
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The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.
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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.
