Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
It's very awkward when you aren't so old inside as you are outside. For years I've been trying to be dignified, and I'm always being tripped up by a kind of apparently incurable natural effervescence.
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I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.
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I like to jump into different worlds. I'm attracted to the emotional rollercoaster of acting. Now I've been doing it for so many years, I must rather enjoy it.
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You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.
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You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
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I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.
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If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone wanted to fit in. It was all about having the same pair of trainers and the same pair of jeans. That's fatal. Whereas the Eighties you would never be seen in the same pair of jeans that somebody else was wearing.
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No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.
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How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.
