Elizabeth Wordsworth Quotes
It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
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Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
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When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.
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They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.
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If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.
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For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.
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I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
