Eleanor Porter Quotes
It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.
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No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.
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Life is a smoke that curls- Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall.
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I've tried to be clear about who I am, and be as open as possible with the press, and speak extremely candidly and openly about stuff. I feel like in almost every instance, it's completely backfired, and I feel like people have all these kind of absurd ideas about the way I think about myself, and my own self-identity.
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It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.
