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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That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.
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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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I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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The merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
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In a piece of my mind the world can't eraseI remember the time and the look on your faceAnd I will 'till the wind blows the stars from the sky'cause the road never ends and the soul never diesBe who you arejust as long as you canKnow in your heart I'm still your manHeadin for homestarlight and stone..
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I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.
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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.
