Elizabeth Drew Quotes
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
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Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.
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We live inside our universe and cannot get a bird's-eye view of it from outside. And we cannot even see all of our universe. Distant parts of it are expanding away from us so fast that they are invisible; they go faster than the speed of light. Having bigger telescopes to see fainter stars will not help us here: invisible is truly invisible.
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I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
