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Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 18, 1969

Topics

Family Funny Great Parents Sister

My style is unique and random. But I think it's important that it still makes sense.

Style Random Think Unique Important

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

Television Try Over Like Scene

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

Passion Acting Always Lived Actress

I wanted women wearing my sweaters to give the impression they were naked. The aim wasn't to impose outfits but to stay as close as possible to women's bodies and their freedom of movement.

Women Freedom Aim Possible Movement

No. I was an only child.

Child Only Child Only

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Easy Procrastination Hard Things Hard

Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they're going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself.

Myself People Road Jokes Decide

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good Bad Never Line Ashamed Shall

I would study the best, the most flashy, the guys that had that flair, the guys that had that wow. I'd study those fighters, and I made up my mind that I'd be all of those at once.

Best Mind Study Up Wow Fighters

What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

Brendan Gleeson

Art Voice Think Word Though Too

I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.

Love Seeing Smiles Audience Faces

For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be vice president sent her over the deep end almost immediately. She went off on a ferocious spending spree that might have killed a lesser woman. Katie Couric's straightforward questions unraveled her.

Stress Woman World Deep End She

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