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Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Elizabeth Gaskell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: September 29, 1810 - November 12, 1865

Topics

Girl Wife Man Different Sure Second

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

Reality Matter Realism Fidelity Any

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

Imagination Creative Opinion Energy

The fact is, America needs energy and new energy infrastructure, and the Keystone XL pipeline will help us achieve that with good stewardship.

Good Energy America Help Achieve Us

My wife taught me the importance of living well.

Wife Me Living Well Importance

Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.

Michael Ignatieff

Men Action Credit Thinkers Ways Too

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

Good Time Evil Negative Somebody

When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time.

Funny Sad Time Think You High

You can have an impact anywhere you are.

Impact You Anywhere

I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'

Love Movies Way Sure Would Kids

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Douglas Coupland

Relationship Stronger Person Who

Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is the biggest wimp in the wild. We have no fangs, no claws, no strength, and no speed.

Christopher McDougall

Nature Strength Truth Truth Is Think

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

Dog Child Enough Responsible

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