Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Quotes to Explore
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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Working with the children on 'Matilda' has been a joy. They don't do this professionally - their sense of discovery is instinctive, and the challenge for us adults is to keep that going in ourselves when we're doing it for the fiftieth or the hundredth time. To my delight and amazement, it hasn't gone stale - we discover it freshly every time.
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People understand the tremendous sacrifices that veterans have made - and they instinctively want to do something for them. And that sometimes leads people to give veterans an excuse: Oh, you didn't show up for work on time. It must be that you have posttraumatic stress disorder. Oh, you're disabled. Don't even try.
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Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.
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I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.
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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
