Eleanor Porter Quotes
It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.
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Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.
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If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.
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Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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There were things I'd never do again, but then, they'd always seemed right.
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As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'
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There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.
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When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.
