Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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Words that weep and tears that speak.
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Marlon Brando is not a gangster-actor, he's an actor. Axl Rose and them are not gangster rock-and-rollers, they're rock-and-rollers right. So I'm a rapper, this is what I do. I'm an artist.
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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
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I had fans, and the industry and everybody saying, 'Keep the Righteous Brothers going; keep the music alive,' and I really didn't want to do that. I had sung with a couple of guys who would supposedly be really good Bobby Hatfields, and I thought, 'Oh geez, it's really anti-climatic.'
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Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
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I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.
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They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.
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I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.
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It was a place to bless God in and cease from vain words.
