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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Quotes

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 31, 1844 - January 28, 1911

Topics

Great Little Things Better Doing

If I can do a scene in one shot, it's in one shot. Most of my shots are pretty long. I think with 'Looking,' what we have in the first minute is a whole episode of a traditional TV show. I like to let things breathe; I like to let things have a certain tone.

Looking Think Long I Can First Tone

I always hear some couples can't work together, and I don't get that. We have the most fun when we're working together.

Work Working Together Together Fun

I believe every one of us has a gift, I believe every one of us human beings has a path in this life, and it is up to each of us, through circumstance, through knowledge, through awareness, through luck - and luck does play a huge part - to hopefully achieve that path and walk the path and realize the gift.

Life Knowledge Path Walk Luck Gift

There are three things that can be organized: time, space, and work. Note that, despite what many believe, you cannot organize people - you can only organize the work that people do.

Work Time Space People Believe You

There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.

Stephen Douglas

Man War Question Sides Two Against

The tsar of War and Peace, especially in the BBC version, is a complete popinjay and a useless character. The real tsar, Alexander I, had an amazing career.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Character Peace War Amazing Career

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

Children People Earth Scorned

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberger

Great Religion People Believe You

I would never interrogate a child or a spouse the way I would a litigant. People wouldn't want to be around you. You'd wind up all alone on an island.

Alone Child People Wind You Want

There is not a great Spanish tradition of ghost stories. But in the period of Franco, you'd find these ghost stories: sort of hidden political movies that were supposed to be about ghosts but were about something else.

Juan Antonio Bayona

Great Political Tradition You Find

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

Good School Writing Always Even Had

I subconsciously mimic whomever I'm talking to, so I've been mistaken for a Canadian, a South American, and somebody from the West Country.

American Talking Country West Been

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