Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
They left off talking. They ceased to mention heaven. They were just cups of acceptance.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.
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Above the mists on Hatheg-Kla, earth's gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for they know they are safe, and love to come from unknown Kadath in ships of clouds and play in the olden way, as they did when earth was new and men not given to the climbing of inaccessible places.
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The general opinion appears to be that it is very funny to make yourself out as fast or as foolish as possible; though even worse than this is the painful orthodoxy of those individuals who claim Shakespeare for their favourite poet, Beethoven for their favourite composer, and Raphael for their favourite painter.
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It is an award for American excellence that excludes and sometimes gracefully includes some other countries. It is an institution or brand created by Hollywood to promote itself, an award decided by 15 people. How nice it would have been if Satyajit Ray, instead of all his awards, got a few more audiences?
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.
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One of my favorite comedies is 'Three Amigos!' Oh my gosh, me and my brother quote that all the time.
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Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.
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I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.
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The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.
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Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number of legal battles in this country. It has succeeded in passing a number of what are called 'religious exemption laws.'
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Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
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'O gin I find anither ladye,' He said wi' sighs and tears, 'I wot my coortin' sall not be Anither thirty years:'For gin I find a ladye gay, Exactly to my taste, I'll pop the question, aye or nay, In twenty years at maist.'
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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'Milton was right…' The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery…
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How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.
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I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.
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They left off talking. They ceased to mention heaven. They were just cups of acceptance.
