Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
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I felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of 'This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.'
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I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
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Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.
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We all get caught up in what we're doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future.
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We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
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You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.
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Not being stupid is important.
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How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.
