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 am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.
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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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I don't think women are that vastly different from men. I'm a bit of a woman myself. But I'm not a feminist filmmaker. I'm not making a feminist thesis to prove that women are important. I just happen to make films with strong characters that are women.
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Coming just days before the presidential elections, it looks like yet another attempt by the Mugabe regime to obstruct the conduct of the election and the ability of the people of Zimbabwe to choose, freely and fairly, who should lead them.
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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
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My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?
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We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.
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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.
