Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
After tea, when both Mrs Fisher and Lady Caroline had disappeared again—it was quite evident that nobody wanted her—she was more dejected than ever, overwhelmed by the discrepancy between the splendour outside her, the warm, teeming beauty and self-sufficiency of nature, and the blank emptiness of her heart.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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I would definitely love to be a parent.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
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No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
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I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.
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If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great deal! Also take a sedative because you will be exalted to the point of delirium!
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Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
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After tea, when both Mrs Fisher and Lady Caroline had disappeared again—it was quite evident that nobody wanted her—she was more dejected than ever, overwhelmed by the discrepancy between the splendour outside her, the warm, teeming beauty and self-sufficiency of nature, and the blank emptiness of her heart.
