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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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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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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I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration; the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing.
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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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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.
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I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.
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She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, "I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before.
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In the end, both extremes had more in common with each other than either did with the middle.
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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.
