Liz Trotta Quotes
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
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People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.
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It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.
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Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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To sense the invisible and to be able to create it - that is art.
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My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.
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Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas.
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Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'
