Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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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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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
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I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
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Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.
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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
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The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
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Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
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We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.
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Meditation … puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness-a more refined version of the problem you already have.
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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
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if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.
