Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
I don't believe there was ever anybody who loved being happy as much as I did. What I mean is that I was so acutely conscious of being happy, so appreciative of it; that I wasn't ever bored, and was always and continuously grateful for the whole delicious loveliness of the world.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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I like to mix British classics, like a great trench, with fun vintage pieces I find in New York. L.A. style is often very relaxed and comfortable, and I appreciate that effortless feel.
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Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
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To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.
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If you're not working, you might as well be dead.
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You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
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I esteem it the crowning mercy of my life that not only the chief ends I contemplated on becoming a missionary are attained, but I am allowed to see competent, faithful, and affectionate successors actively engaged in the work.
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If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can show up for without being submitted by an agent.
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I don't believe there was ever anybody who loved being happy as much as I did. What I mean is that I was so acutely conscious of being happy, so appreciative of it; that I wasn't ever bored, and was always and continuously grateful for the whole delicious loveliness of the world.
