Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did.
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We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.
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I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
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And swear No where Lives a woman true and fair. If thou find'st one, let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet; Yet do not, I would not go, Though at next door we might meet, Though she were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.
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I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.
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A man must take the fat with the lean.
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Knowledge by suffering entereth,And life is perfected by death.
