Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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To me, my business is my life.
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You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
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I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.
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I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.
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I believe the United States is very sick financially and might not survive another four years of Obama-style leadership.
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Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
