Elizabeth Bishop Quotes
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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My dreams are all follies.
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.
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Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.
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My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
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The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.
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I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
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Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.
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Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
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Buy clothes the size you want to wear.
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If it had pleased them the legislators to order that this wealth, after having been possessed by fathers during their life, should return to the republic after their death, you would have no reason to complain of it.
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All we can do is live every single day and do our best to be present with the ones that we love and with everybody that we come in contact with … The timing of everything seems too divine sometimes to ignore.
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ISIS is not at our doorstep. Illegal immigrants are not only at our doorstep, but millions of them are already through the door, murdering far more Americans than ISIS ever will.
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It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
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I love heels... whoever created heels is amazing!
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Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.
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I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.
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The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.
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The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us doso many a dangerous thing.
