Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
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I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.
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Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
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Death,I need my little addiction to you.need that tiny voice who,even as I rise from the sea,all woman, all there,says kill me, kill me.
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I love multi-cam. I grew up in a border town in South Texas right next to Mexico, a million miles away from this world... and to me, multi-cams are just like theater.
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I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
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I taught my executive team how to argue.
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This is going to sound terrible, but once I moved to New York, I never did a civilian job. I was extraordinarily lucky.
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I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a real conversation. And I know that people... like to eavesdrop on a conversation.
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I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.
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Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.
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I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.
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I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.
