Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.
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I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
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Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
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Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
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Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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The transition as far as our living conditions has been relatively easy. But as far as our mental state, I think everyone's suffering right now.
