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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I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
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What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.
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The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.
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Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.
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In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.
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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.
