Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for more than a week.

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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
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Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
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The obsessive rules of etiquette struck Emily as mean-spirited, like the old trick of tying someone’s shoelaces under the table. It was only fun if you liked watching people fall down.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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I wouldn't have said off-hand that I had a subconscious mind, but I suppose I must without knowing it, and no doubt it was there, sweating away diligently at the old stand, all the while the corporeal Wooster was getting his eight hours.
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The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.
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The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
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If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.
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Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up striding across the stage in a red leather ensemble that would have made Elvis Presley chuckle, yet is probably best known to anyone born in the 21st century as the overly chatty donkey from 'Shrek.'
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I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.
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'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.
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This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for more than a week.