Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
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All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!
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I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I don't think one should attribute the success and failure of a film to a single actor. When you decide to do a film, you weigh the pros and cons before taking a call. Only when you run out of patience, get insecure, and feel your career is heading nowhere do you sign anything that comes your way.
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All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
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Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.