Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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Nobody scares me.
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I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'
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I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.
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I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
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During slumber's magic reignOther times shall live again;
