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'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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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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Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
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Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart.
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'So I do my duty, and land in the shit.' 'You have at last seized the essence of soldiering.'
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What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
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Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date
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I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.
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We all have to make choices in life.
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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.
