Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.
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Each pineapple plant produces only one fruit per year. It can take up to two years for the pineapple to ripen, and it's important to wait, because once it's picked, it can't ripen any further. The unripe pineapple is not only horrible tasting but poisonous.
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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast you in.
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I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.
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Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.
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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
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We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
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I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything.
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Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
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Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
