Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
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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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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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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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Their practice habits are terrific. I've been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it.
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Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so.
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I think controversy is an interesting thing in that it usually goes hand in hand with starting conversations that surround taboo or under-discussed topics that need to be discussed and need to be less in the shadows, in my opinion.
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Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
