Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
It is a beautiful spot, endless forest stretching along the shore as far as the eye can reach ; and after driving through it for miles you come suddenly, at the end of an avenue of arching trees, upon the glistening, oily sea, with the orange-coloured sails of distant fishing-smacks shining in the sunlight.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.
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When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
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I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
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My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
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Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
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A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
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We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.
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It is a beautiful spot, endless forest stretching along the shore as far as the eye can reach ; and after driving through it for miles you come suddenly, at the end of an avenue of arching trees, upon the glistening, oily sea, with the orange-coloured sails of distant fishing-smacks shining in the sunlight.
