Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
Pankaj Mishra
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
Natalie Dormer
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
Omari Hardwick
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
Yolanda Adams
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It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.'
Hailey Gates
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The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.
Patrick Rothfuss
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
Pam Bondi
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Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.
Zendaya
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I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.
Kat Edmonson
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There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
Salman Rushdie
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
Isaac D'Israeli
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If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today. And here on Earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and commit ourselves as Americans to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle, happy spirit.
Barack Obama
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Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.
Charlie Rowe
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Walk with me world, upon my right hand walk, speak to me Babel, that I may strive to assemble of all these syllables a single word before the purpose of speech is gone.
Conrad Aiken
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I like circle time and school drop-off. And I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.
Christine Taylor
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My right hand is a monster.
Deontay Wilder
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Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.
Elizabeth von Arnim
