Estelle Freedman Quotes
To quell the women’s revolt, the British first sent police, then soldiers, and finally even the Boy Scouts.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.
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I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.
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I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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I will remember you;Will you remember me?Don't let your life pass you by;Weep not for the memories.
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Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
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I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.
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I don't like watching people work if they're making art.
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I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that investment in adolescent girls and empowering them is good for our foreign policy. When they're educated, they tend to give back more to their communities, to rise out of poverty in a way that is good for their families and their communities and, ultimately, their countries.
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I am critical of myself.
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I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many things that can go wrong. There are too many things that can change.
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I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.
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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.
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Beauty within itself should not be wasted.
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To quell the women’s revolt, the British first sent police, then soldiers, and finally even the Boy Scouts.
