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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I think one of the secrets to modelling is the less you care and the more you're yourself, the more successful you are.
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The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.
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More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
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I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.
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When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
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Knowledge by suffering entereth,And life is perfected by death.
