Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
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'Entrepreneur' is a French word.
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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I always wanted to be an actor.
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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
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I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.
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There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been.
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When my plans to become a world-famous rockstar didn't pan out, I decided to try being a lesbian instead, didn't pull that off either, and wrote my second book, the national bestseller, 'The Straight Girl's Guide To Sleeping With Chicks.'
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To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
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The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.
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What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
