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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Elizabeth Bowen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973

Topics

Women Why Up Fiction Things Keep

If I was so establishment, I don't think Our Revolution... would actually endorse me.

Me Revolution Think Would Our

Those athletes are not going to wear my headphones because I asked them.

Headphones Wear Going Because Those

The women I play don't sit in the corner eating lettuce leaves and talking about what designer shoes they have.

Women Shoes Eating Talking Play Sit

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

Music Mom Beatles Different Elvis

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.

Michelle Magorian

Children School Reading Ship Early

There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human.

Day Impossible Restaurant Better

I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters.

Writing Generation Friends Letters

People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.

Girl I Am People Baby Pink Think

My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.

Love Character Opportunity Process

I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident.

Confident Say Arrogant Just

I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background.

Father Mother Parents Think Single

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Marriage Happiness Tears End Look

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