Eleanor Porter Quotes
... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.
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The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.
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... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.
