Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.
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Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!
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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
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I always ask the question: As more Africans are going online, are they finding content that is meaningful and relevant to them, or are they just consuming from everywhere else. As Africans, we have the capacity to generate our own content.
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We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
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Something that 'Game of Thrones' always does successfully is that action sequences are never just action sequences. There's always a point of view, and you're always identifying with one person or one group of people.
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Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
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There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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I really got to see my dad enjoy every day that he was working. Everybody should be able to have this much fun when they go to work.
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Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
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I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy.
