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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The best advice that I can offer is that being proactive and a careful planner is key. Think about the major things that could shake up your financial life, and I'll bet there are some great ways to protect yourself.
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You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.
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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.
