Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.

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You need the willingness to fail all the time.

John Backus

TimeYouNeedFailWillingness

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

John Foster

CharacterMeRevealDesiresElements

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

John Catsimatidis

RealityMediaAlwaysReflect

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.

Matthew Barney

WorkArtNew YorkWorldInteresting

Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.

Robert Gottlieb

BrightJewishPointManhattanWho

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

Anna Held

LovelySingleBeingMuchQuite

I think the main struggle for women in Hollywood and women in my position is to fight for true representation in the media and accurate representation of our many diverse qualities in stories.

Amber Heard

WomenStruggleFightThinkMedia

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

Stuart Symington

WarWinBelieveI BelieveMilitary

'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the book and bought the rights to it.

Roma Downey

LoveBookRightsFantasticNovel

Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.

Louise Fletcher

LifeTimeJoyCareLongFeelings

I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

ChallengesProblemsFaceEndFeel

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Dennis Quaid

LifeGodTogetherYouWayGlue

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