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 make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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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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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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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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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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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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Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.
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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
