Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
Put out? My dear Gertrud, I have been thinking of very serious things. You cannot expect me to frolic along paths of thought that lead to mighty and unpleasant truths. Why should I always smile? I am not a Cheshire cat.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt … we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.
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It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
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My accent depends on whom I'm around.
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You see kids walking to the bus, and they're watching product on their phones. I'm positive that my grandkids and their grandkids are going to put on a pair of glasses and watch something.
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When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.
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Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.
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I love to sweat.
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Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.
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When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?
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I hadn't ever worked with an 'editor' until I was 26 - although that could be partly chalked up to the MFA vs. NYC thing, where I came up through institutions that encouraged writers to write privately for a long, long time and not sully themselves with concerns about audience or the business side of writing.
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The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.
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Every major feature of the modern United States—from racial equality to Social Security, from the Pentagon to the suburb—represents a repudiation of Jeffersonianism.
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Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
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When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?
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The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.
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When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.
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Put out? My dear Gertrud, I have been thinking of very serious things. You cannot expect me to frolic along paths of thought that lead to mighty and unpleasant truths. Why should I always smile? I am not a Cheshire cat.
