Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
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Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.
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I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.
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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
