Elspeth Huxley Quotes
The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a great deal more than a man with a gun.
Quotes to Explore
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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
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If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
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I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.
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You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.
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The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a great deal more than a man with a gun.
