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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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 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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Words that weep and tears that speak.
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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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I have been a Republican since I came to this country, fleeing communism when I was eight years old and Ronald Reagan was president.
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If I was blond and tall, then I would have had 10 times the competition. I auditioned steadily and performed for everyone who would hire me. Now I am in a position to pick and choose my roles.
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The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.
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I haven't grown since I was 13, and every girl cast opposite me isn't allowed to wear heels on camera, for fear that I would look minuscule. In all of the casting calls for my best friends on every project, it says in big, bold, red letters: 'Please no high heels.' It's a little embarrassing.
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I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God.
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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
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I don't really try too hard to be anything that I'm not.
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It was a place to bless God in and cease from vain words.
