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
Quotes to Explore
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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 highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.
Carly Fiorina
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I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.
Pankaj Mishra
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We live in a society where everything's packaged.
Paloma Faith
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
Ziyi Zhang
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
Jackie Collins
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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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For me, style is all about confidence. What you wear, both in terms of clothing and jewellery, should add to your confidence.
Dulquer Salmaan
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I want to be a professional wakeboarder.
Donald Cerrone
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We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.
Marianne Williamson
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Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.
Walt Disney
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Sometimes I do stuff where people say, 'Why did you do that?' And you know, it's very simple. I do it because I've never done it before.
Christoph Waltz
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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
