Elizabeth George Quotes

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.

Elizabeth George

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 26, 1949

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Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

Jerry Reed

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Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

Jeffrey Kluger

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I am a passionate nonfinisher. Life is too short, and there are too many great books to read, so if I lose interest or respect, I switch. But when, of course, when you really fall in love with a book, all the others are ignored.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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I've earned every single thing that I've got.

Tony Bellew

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The so-called second New Deal of 1935 - including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor - represented an effort to meet the rising voices demanding a more aggressive government approach to the collapse of national prosperity.

Robert Dallek

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My girlfriend has to beat me up to get me to relax because I work all the time.

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I was 12 years old and in summer camp. I started a company called Aardvark Industries, which provided basic services to camp counselors.

Jon Taffer

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I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

Jonathan Glazer

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I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.

Christian Slater

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I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

Brian De Palma

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I know now that I want to do more voice-over projects. They really have the ability to transport you into the world of whatever movie it is you are working on.

Bridgit Mendler

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I have learned a great deal from the theatrical side of Covent Garden. The Paris Opera Ballet is more concerned with technique. It's perfect. It's beautiful. It's well done. But it lacks the theatrical tradition that is so important in England. At the Royal Ballet, absolutely everyone on stage seems to be caught up in the plot.

Sylvie Guillem

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