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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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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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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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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My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.
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I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.
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There are things that I don't like to talk about directly. There are relationships that I am in and have been in that I've written about in a slightly more abstract way, talking about how it affected me but not so much dealing with the other people involved.
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The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.
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I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.
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I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
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When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately tried to get a job working on that film, and I couldn't. So my first job as a PA was on a CBS movie of the week that was shooting next door, and whenever I could, I would sneak over so I could watch.
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When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?'
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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.
